| From: | Paul McGarry <paul(dot)mcgarry(at)gmail(dot)com> | 
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Full outer join question. | 
| Date: | 2005-07-08 01:22:39 | 
| Message-ID: | a056b1d4050707182243b540dc@mail.gmail.com | 
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Hi there everyone,
I'm having trouble getting the rows I want from a full outer join with
a where clause. Here is a simplified version of my tables:
======
create table lefty (
 day date,
 goodamount numeric(10,2),
 grp integer
);
insert into lefty values ('2005-06-01',5.00,1);
insert into lefty values ('2005-06-02',10.00,1);
insert into lefty values ('2005-06-01',2.50,2);
create table righty (
 day date,
 badamount numeric(10,2),
 grp integer
);
insert into righty values ('2005-06-01',-5.00,3);
insert into righty values ('2005-06-02',-10.00,1);
insert into righty values ('2005-06-02',-2.50,1);
======
The base query I want to do is:
SELECT grp, count(goodamount), sum(goodamount), count(badamount),
sum(badamount) FROM lefty FULL OUTER JOIN righty USING (grp) GROUP BY
grp;
This returns what I expect:
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 grp | count |  sum  | count |  sum
-----+-------+-------+-------+--------
   3 |     0 |       |     1 |  -5.00
   2 |     1 |  2.50 |     0 |
   1 |     4 | 30.00 |     4 | -25.00
======
However, in the real world I don't want to do a query for the entire
tables, but for a particular date period, ie add restraints on
lefty.day and righty.day.
When I do that I lose all the rows whose grp isn't in both tables. For example:
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SELECT grp, count(goodamount), sum(goodamount), count(badamount),
sum(badamount) FROM lefty FULL OUTER JOIN righty USING (grp)
WHERE lefty.day >= '2005-06-01' AND righty.day>='2005-06-01'
GROUP BY grp;
 grp | count |  sum  | count |  sum
-----+-------+-------+-------+--------
   1 |     4 | 30.00 |     4 | -25.00
======
Any ideas?
Paul
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