Re: Two joins on same foreign key

From: elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>
To: Anony Mous <a(dot)mous(at)shaw(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Two joins on same foreign key
Date: 2004-01-31 19:09:37
Message-ID: 20040131110937.W14914@cookie.varlena.com
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PostgreSQL General Bits Issue #56 has an article on Join Basics
which also has an example of multiple table joins.

http://cookie.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/56.php

--elein
elein(at)varlena(dot)com

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:03:35PM -0700, Anony Mous wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I??m fairly new to this database, and have read much discussion on
> sub-queries. I??ve seen that they can be great for some queries, and downright
> slow for others. I have a table with two foreign keys referencing another
> table, like:
>
>
>
> Table #1
>
> employee_id (pk)
>
> employee_name
>
>
>
> Table #2
>
> teamleader_employee_id
>
> backup_employee_id
>
>
>
> both fields in table 2 need to do a lookup in table 1 to get the name of the
> actual employee. Do I need to use nested queries to accomplish this? Any help
> is greatly appreciated!
>
>
>
> -AM
>

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