Re: Apparently I don't understand full outer joins....

>select
> coalesce(a.n,0) as a,
> coalesce(b.n,0) as b,
> coalesce(c.n,0) as c,
> coalesce(a.s,b.s,c.s) as s
>from
> ( select 1 as n, 0 as s) a full outer join
> ( select 1 as n, 1 as s) b full outer join
> ( select 2 as n, 2 as s) c
>on
> a.s = b.s and
> b.s = c.s
>
>
>.... and get a syntax error at the end of my query. Apparently what I'm
>trying to do doesn't make sense?
>

Maybe this is what you want...

select
coalesce(a.n,0) as a,
coalesce(b.n,0) as b,
coalesce(c.n,0) as c,
coalesce(a.s,b.s,c.s) as s
from
( select 1 as n, 0 as s) a full outer join
( select 1 as n, 1 as s) b
on a.s = b.s

full outer join
( select 2 as n, 2 as s) c
on
b.s = c.s

a | b | c | s
---+---+---+---
1 | 0 | 0 | 0
0 | 1 | 0 | 1
0 | 0 | 2 | 2

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