Re: Probably a newbie question

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 02:57:14PM -0400, stan wrote:
> Sorry, I got the list address wrong the first time, and when I corrected it,
> I forget to fix the subject line.
>
> I apologize for asking, what I suspect will turn out to be a newbie
> question, but I have managed to get myself quite confused on this.
>
> I am defining a view as follows
>
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE view purchase_view as
> select
> project.proj_no ,
> qty ,
> mfg_part.mfg_part_no ,
> mfg.name as m_name ,
> mfg_part.descrip as description ,
> (
> SELECT
> name
> FROM
> vendor
> WHERE
> bom_item.vendor_key =
> (
> SELECT
> vendor_key
> FROM
> mfg_vendor_relationship
> WHERE
> bom_item.mfg_key = mfg_key
> AND
> prefered = TRUE
> AND
> bom_item.project_key = project_key
>
> )
> )
> as v_name ,
> /*
> vendor.name as v_name ,
> */
> cost_per_unit ,
> costing_unit.unit,
> need_date ,
> order_date ,
> recieved_date ,
> po_no ,
> po_line_item
> from
> bom_item
> right join project on
> project.project_key = bom_item.project_key
> inner join mfg_part on
> mfg_part.mfg_part_key = bom_item.mfg_part_key
> inner join vendor on
> vendor.vendor_key = bom_item.vendor_key
> inner join costing_unit on
> costing_unit.costing_unit_key = bom_item.costing_unit_key
> inner join mfg on
> mfg.mfg_key = bom_item.mfg_key
> WHERE bom_item is NOT NULL
> ORDER BY
> project.proj_no ,
> mfg_part
> ;
>

Thanks to the kind, bright people on this list, I have solved my problem.
The basic issue was that my from clause was on the wrong table.

Thanks to everyone who spent their time helping me out on this!
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