How is this possible?
I have two tables. 'services', and 'messages'. Each message can be
assigned to one service, or it can be unnasigned. Therefore 'service_id'
column in table 'messages' is not foreign-keyed to 'id' column in
services table. services.id is PK for services, messages.id is PK for
messages.
Now, here goes:
pulitzer2=# select * from services where id = 1001; id | keyword | type_id | vpn_id | start_time | end_time
| day_boundary | week_boundary | month_boundary | recurrence |
random_message_count
------+---------+---------+--------+------------+------------------------+--------------+---------------+----------------+------------+----------------------1001
|cocker | 1 | 1 | | 2005-10-20 12:00:00+02
| | | | 1 |
(1 row)
Ok, I have a service with id 1001 which is called 'cocker'.
Now, I want all the messages for that service within certain period:
pulitzer2=# select * from messages where service_id = 1001 and
receiving_time between '2005-10-01' and '2005-10-30';id | from | to | receiving_time | raw_text | keyword |
destination_id|
vpn_id | service_id | status | reply
----+------+----+----------------+----------+---------+----------------+--------+------------+--------+-------
(0 rows)
Ok, no such messages.
Now I want all services which didn't have any messages within certain
period:
pulitzer2=# select * from services where id not in (select distinct
service_id from messages where receiving_time between '2005-10-01' and
'2005-10-30');id | keyword | type_id | vpn_id | start_time | end_time | day_boundary
| week_boundary | month_boundary | recurrence | random_message_count
----+---------+---------+--------+------------+----------+--------------+---------------+----------------+------------+----------------------
(0 rows)
Why is that?
I 'discovered' above mentioned when I was transforming this query:
SELECTservices.id AS service_id,(SELECT COUNT(id)FROM messagesWHERE (messages.service_id = services.id)
AND(messages.receiving_time >= '2005-10-01') AND (messages.receiving_time < '2005-10-30')) AS "count",
services.keyword
FROMservices
WHERE(services.vpn_id = 1) AND( (services.start_time IS NULL OR services.start_time <= '2005-10-30') AND
(services.end_timeIS NULL OR services.end_time >= '2005-10-01'))
GROUP BYservices.id,services.keyword
ORDER BYservices.keyword
[this query shows correctly, for service 'cocker', that '"count"' column
has value 0]
I transformed query to this:
SELECTservices.id AS service_id,count(messages.id) as "count", services.keyword
FROMservicesLEFT OUTER JOIN messages ON services.id = messages.service_id
WHEREservices.vpn_id = 1AND messages.receiving_time BETWEEN '2005-10-01' AND '2005-10-30'
GROUP BYservices.id,services.keyword
ORDER BYservices.keyword
This query runs MUCH faster, but it omits the 'cocker' column, as if I
used INNER JOIN.
Any clues? I'm stuck here...
Mike
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