Re: Help writing a piece of SQL

Niklas,

Thank you very much, that did the business

Cheers

Nigel Bishop

-----Original Message-----
From: Niklas Johansson [mailto:spot(at)tele2(dot)se]
Sent: 03 February 2006 13:00
To: Nigel Bishop
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Help writing a piece of SQL

On 3 feb 2006, at 11.43, Nigel Bishop wrote:
> The query will have the username and domain passed in as variables.
> If the username and domain exist then return the sendto
> The bit I'm struggling with is if the username doesn't exist then
> return the sendto where the domain exists
>
> e.g. username=fred (this doesn't exist) and domain=rusty.com then
> returnrusty(at)rabbit(dot)com, matilda(dot)clematis(at)rabbit(dot)com,
> stoat(dot)griffin(at)rabbit(dot)com

I think this could do the trick for you:

SELECT sendto FROM users t1
WHERE domain='rusty.com' AND (username='fred') = EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM
users t2 WHERE username='fred' and domain=t1.domain);

Sincerely,

Niklas Johansson

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