I always have a single row in these selects so the result will have only
a row.
I must make a single select for a framework that takes as parameter a
single select to complete a XML template in a particular situation.
------ Original Message ------
From: "John R Pierce" <pierce@hogranch.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Sent: 1/29/2015 10:52:25 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Subselect with no records results in final empty
set
>On 1/29/2015 12:36 PM, Sterpu Victor wrote:
>>
>>ON(null) never matched.
>
>NULL is neither true nor false.
>
>ON somefieldinthejoin IS NULL would be a valid syntax. except, that's
>NOT a join condition, a join condition would be ON left_table.something
>= right_table.something
>
>>ON (1=1)
>
>equivalent to ON TRUE
>
>but that will cross join everything, so if the left table has N rows
>and the right table has M rows, you'll end up with N*M rows in the
>result. is that really what you want ??
>
>
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