Re: UNION or LEFT JOIN? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Oliveiros
Subject Re: UNION or LEFT JOIN?
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Msg-id f54607781002160733l5e6f6d6fg1821106498ab464b@mail.gmail.com
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In response to UNION or LEFT JOIN?  (Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-sql@apartia.org>)
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Louis-David,

Please advice me,

if some cabin doesn't have a price i.e. it is not available, is there some way to tell
which cruise it belongs to?

You have PRICE table which seems to me to be an associative table between cruise and cabin, is this correct?

But, if the price doesn't have a register for that pair (îd_cabin,id_cruise), how do you know that cabin belongs to that cruise, in this case, cruise nº 1?

Best,
Oliveiros

2010/2/16 Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-sql@apartia.org>
Here is the basic schema:

 -------------------------->id_ship>-----------------------
 |                                                        |
[SHIP]->id_ship->[CABIN]->id_cabin->[PRICE]<-id_cruise<-[CRUISE]

It's a database of cruise prices.

Each 'price' object has a reference to 'cabin' and 'cruise'

'cabin' belongs to a 'ship', so does 'cruise'

I'm trying to select all cabins of cruise N°1 with prices OR nothing if
there is no price (meaning cabin not available). I want all cabins
listed, price or no price.

Also when doing the query I don't have the id_ship, only the id_cruise.

What is the best way of doing it? UNION or LEFT JOIN? I tried the latter
without success and am unsure on how do do the former.

Thanks,

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