Re: Help with multistage query

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 05:37:47PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote:
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> From: Russell Simpkins
> To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Help with multistage query
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> I have a perl script that issues a series of SQL statements to perform some queries. The script works, but I believe there must be a more elegant way to do this.
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> The simplified queries look like this:
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> SELECT id FROM t1 WHERE condition1; ;returns about 2k records which are stored in @idarray
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> foreach $id (@idarray) {
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> SELECT x FROM t2 WHERE id=$id; ; each select returns about 100 records which are saved in a perl variable
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> }
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> how about
> select t1.id from t1, t2 where t1.id = t2.id and t2.id = x
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> or more correctly, based on the OP's example:
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> select t2.x from t1, t2 where t1.id = t2.id and t1.id = <condition>

Actually, I think you want AND t2.x <condition>, not t1.id.

BTW, I recommend not using id as a bareword field name. Very easy to get
confused when you start joining a bunch of stuff together.
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