Re: Left Outer Join Question

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Edward Murray" <mail(at)avenuedesign(dot)net>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Left Outer Join Question
Date: 2002-02-27 06:04:54
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOGEJCCBAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > What's probably happening is that count isn't counting NULLs?
>
> As per spec. If you want to count records independently of whether
> any particular column is NULL or not, use count(*). See the docs,
> notably
> http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/sql-ex
> pressions.html#SYNTAX-AGGREGATES

OK, Edward - I guess Tom means do this?:

select category.name, count(items.*) from category left outer join
items on (category.recordnum = items.catnum) where category.recordnum =
section_subcats.catnum and section_subcats.sectionnum = 1 and
items.clientnum = 333 group by category.name;

Chris

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