Re: full join question...

Thanks Tom, that worked great!!

Regards Jonas:))

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 15:09 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonas F. Henriksen" <jonas(dot)f(dot)henriksen(at)imr(dot)no> writes:
> > Well, the problem is I want the result on one row for each depth, so it
> > will fit nicely into a table, like this:
>
> > depth measuretype1_value measuretype2_value
> > 10 1.78 2.55
> > 20 2.12
> > 30 3.12
> > 40 1.3 1.4
>
> I think what you have to do is filter the rows according to measuretype
> *before* you join them. Something like
>
> select * from
> (select depth, value as measuretype1_value from testtable
> where measuretype = 1040) ss1
> full join
> (select depth, value as measuretype2_value from testtable
> where measuretype = 4001) ss2
> using (depth);
>
> regards, tom lane