Re: [NOVICE] JOIN - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Sean Davis
Subject Re: [NOVICE] JOIN
Date
Msg-id 46656843.6000504@mail.nih.gov
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In response to JOIN  ("Loredana Curugiu" <loredana.curugiu@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-sql
Loredana Curugiu wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have the following table:
>
> count | theme  |   receiver        |             date
> |                                     dates
>                                                |
>
-------+-----------+----------------------+------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------
>
>       2 | LIA      | +40741775621 | 2007-06-02 00:00:00+00 |
> {2007-06-02,2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07}
>         |
>       1 | LIA      | +40741775621 | 2007-06-04 00:00:00+00 |
> {2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08,2007-06-09}
> |
>       3 | CRIS   | +40741775622 | 2007-06-01 00:00:00+00 |
> {2007-06-01,2007-06-02,2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07}
> |
>       1 | CRIS   | +40741775622 | 2007-06-04 00:00:00+00 |
> {2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08,2007-06-09,2007-06-10}
> |
>       2 | LIA      | +40741775621 | 2007-06-03 00:00:00+00 |
> {2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08}
>        |
>       1 | CRIS   | +40741775622 | 2007-06-04 00:00:00+00 |
> {2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08,2007-06-09,2007-06-10}
> |
>       1 | CRIS   | +40741775622 | 2007-06-03 00:00:00+00 |
> {2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08,2007-06-09}
> |
>       1 | CRIS   | +40741775622 | 2007-06-04 00:00:00+00 |
> {2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08,2007-06-09,2007-06-10}
> |
>       4 | LIA      | +40741775621 | 2007-06-01 00:00:00+00 |
> {2007-06-01,2007-06-02,2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06}
> |
>       1 | LIA      | +40741775621 | 2007-06-04 00:00:00+00 |
> {2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08,2007-06-09}
> |
>       1 | CRIS   | +40741775622 | 2007-06-02 00:00:00+00 |
> {2007-06-02,2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08}
> |
>
> I want to add up the count column grouped by theme and receiver for the
> dates included in the dates column.
> So  I have the following query:
>
>        SELECT SUM(A.count),
>                      A.theme,
>                      A.receiver,
>                      A.dates
>           FROM my_table A
> INNER JOIN my_table B
>               ON A.theme=B.theme
>             AND A.receiver=B.receiver
>             AND A.date=ANY(B.dates)
>  GROUP BY A.theme,A.receiver, A.dates;
>
> The result of the query is:
>
> sum | theme   |    receiver        |
> dates
> -------+-----------+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      3 | CRIS   | +40741775622 |
> {2007-06-01,2007-06-02,2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07}
>      2 | CRIS   | +40741775622 |
> {2007-06-02,2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08}
>      3 | CRIS   | +40741775622 |
> {2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08,2007-06-09}
>    18 | CRIS   | +40741775622 |
> {2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08,2007-06-09,2007-06-10}
>      4 | LIA      | +40741775621 |
> {2007-06-01,2007-06-02,2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06}
>      4 | LIA      | +40741775621 |
> {2007-06-02,2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07}
>      6 | LIA      | +40741775621 |
> {2007-06-03,2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08}
>    10 | LIA      | +40741775621 |
> {2007-06-04,2007-06-05,2007-06-06,2007-06-07,2007-06-08,2007-06-09}
>
> The result is wrong. I don't know what it is wrong at my query.
> Please help.

Loredana,

It is great to see your determination to get the answer, but we still do
not know what is "wrong" with the query result.  You will need to
explain what you think is wrong before anyone can help.  The output
looks like it matches the query perfectly.

Sean

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