Re: How to join from two tables at once?

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:58, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> How can I join on one table with join conditions refering to two tables?
> In this example p is missing an entry that corresponds to u. I want to
> select from u and p, but have entries in u that don't have an entry in p.
> The problem is I need to go through table a to get the corresponding value
> in table p, and a LEFT JOIN only operates on two tables. The subselect
> works, but in real life turns out to be a big performance drain.
(...)

> -- doesn't get 2, because there is no entry in p for it
> SELECT u.uid, u.txt, p.val FROM u,a,p WHERE u.uid = p.uid and a.id = u.aid
> and p.pkey = a.pkey;
>
> -- works, but uses a subselect
> SELECT u.uid, u.txt, (SELECT p.val FROM p WHERE p.uid = u.uid AND p.pkey =
> a.pkey) FROM u,a WHERE a.id = u.aid;
>
> --doesn't work: ERROR: JOIN/ON clause refers to "u", which is not part of
> JOIN SELECT u.uid, u.txt, p.val FROM u,a LEFT JOIN p ON p.uid = u.uid AND
> p.pkey = a.pkey WHERE a.id = u.aid;

Try:

SELECT u.uid, u.txt, p.val
FROM u
INNER JOIN a ON (a.id=u.aid)
LEFT JOIN p ON (p.pkey=a.pkey AND p.uid=u.uid)

Ian Barwick
barwick(at)gmx(dot)net