Re: showing also value '0' with aggregate count()

You need a left outer join:

select name, count(sales.client_id) from clients left outer join sales on
sales.client_id = clients.id group by name;

Outer joins were not supported prior to 7.1, so if you're using an earlier
version, you'll want to either upgrade or read the docs for your version; they
had a standard workaround prior to 7.1.

Wes Sheldahl

Janning Vygen <vygen%planwerk6(dot)de(at)interlock(dot)lexmark(dot)com> on 09/27/2001 10:51:45
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To: "PostgreSQL-General" <pgsql-general%postgresql(dot)org(at)interlock(dot)lexmark(dot)com>
cc: (bcc: Wesley Sheldahl/Lex/Lexmark)
Subject: [GENERAL] showing also value '0' with aggregate count()

I need some help please,

i am having two simple tables:

# select * from sales;
client_id | product
-----------+---------
1 | toolbox
1 | nails
2 | nuts

# select * from clients;
id | name
----+-------
1 | peter
2 | john
3 | marc

now i want to show all client name and the count of the sales in one
table like this:

# select name, count(sales.client_id) from clients, sales where
sales.client_id = clients.id group by name;

name | count
-------+-------
john | 1
peter | 2

works fine, but where is marc??? it should look like

name | count
-------+-------
john | 1
peter | 2
marc | 0

who can i make it work??? i think i know why my select statement
doesnt work, because of the where clause marc will never join this
table because the condition will never be true... but how can i do
it??

i guess its very very simple, but i just cant manage it.

thanks in advance
janning

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