From: | Oliveiros Cristina <oliveiros(dot)cristina(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Richard Klingler <richard(at)klingler(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Return product category with hierarchical info |
Date: | 2022-01-05 13:00:09 |
Message-ID: | BA76C02E-C4C8-4EA4-BE9E-7299EE21ACC8@gmail.com |
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No worries
Glad it helped !
Best,
Oliver
Sent from Oliver’s iPhone
> On 5 Jan 2022, at 12:38, Richard Klingler <richard(at)klingler(dot)net> wrote:
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>
> Hello Oliver
>
>
>
> Exactly that's it...I knew some "join" would be involved...but couldn't find the right example ;-)
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> thanks for the quick help :-)
>
> richard
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> On 1/5/22 13:28, Oliveiros Cristina wrote:
>> I’m also no expert, it’s been a decade or so since I do not use psql
>> But maybe
>>
>> Select level3.id, level3.name, level2.name, level1.name,
>> From category level3
>> Join category level2
>> On level2.Id = level3.parent
>> Join category level1
>> On level1.Id = level2.parent
>>
>> Best,
>> Oliver
>>
>> Sent from Oliver’s iPhone
>>
>>> On 5 Jan 2022, at 12:19, Richard Klingler <richard(at)klingler(dot)net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Good afternoon (o;
>>>
>>>
>>> First of all, am I am totally no expert in using PGSQL but use it mainly for simple web applications...
>>>
>>>
>>> Now I have a table which represents the categories for products in a hierarchical manner:
>>>
>>> id | name | parent
>>>
>>>
>>> So a top category is represented with parent being 0:
>>>
>>> 1 | 'Living' | 0
>>>
>>>
>>> The next level would look:
>>>
>>> 2 | 'Decoration' | 1
>>>
>>>
>>> And the last level (only 3 levels):
>>>
>>> 3 | 'Table' | 2
>>>
>>>
>>> So far I'm using this query to get all 3rd level categories as I use the output for datatables editor as a product can only belong to the lowest category:
>>>
>>> select id, name from category
>>> where parent in (select id from category where parent in (select id from category where parent = 0))
>>>
>>> But this has a problem as more than one 3rd level category can have the same name, therefore difficult to distinguish in the datatables editor which one is right.
>>>
>>>
>>> So now my question (finally ;o):
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a simple query that would return all 3rd levels category ids and names together with the concatenated names of the upper levels? Something like:
>>>
>>>
>>> 3 | 'Table' | 'Living - Decoration'
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks in advance
>>>
>>> richard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PS: If someone could recommend a good ebook or online resource for such stupid questions, even better (o;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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