From: | "Oliveiros d'Azevedo Cristina" <oliveiros(dot)cristina(at)marktest(dot)pt> |
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To: | "James David Smith" <james(dot)david(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Joining time fields? |
Date: | 2012-07-24 15:25:19 |
Message-ID: | 5FBB548834B7482788A33316E0B146E4@marktestcr.marktest.pt |
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Hi, James,
But that wouldn't be a LEFT JOIN, it will be an INNER JOIN.
Because you'll always be able to join a date from table a with some date from table b even if it is 100 years away...
If table a has just one record datetime = 2012-1-1 and table b has two records datetime = 2010-1-1 and datetime = 2011-1-1 then you'd be able to join table a with the second of table b' records.
You won't be able to join only if table b happens to be empty...ain't I right?
What do you mean by the closest time? Do you have some threshold ? Are they allowed to be arbitrarily far away one from each other?
Best,
Oliveiros
----- Original Message -----
From: James David Smith
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 3:57 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] Joining time fields?
Hi all,
I wonder if someone could help me out please. I've got two tables, both with a TIMESTAMP field. I'd like to do a left join with them. I'd like to take the date_time from table A, and join it with the nearest date_time from table B. Whether the time from B is before or after the time in A doesn't matter, I just want the closest time. I started with the below query, but it only gets me the column from table B if the time stamp exactly matches which is clearly correct. I'm sure that this should be quite easy but I can't figure it out...!
Select
a.date_time
b.date_time
FROM table_one a
LEFT JOIN table_two b ON a.date_time = b.date_time
Thanks
James
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