Hi there, having problems with the following:

From: "Jens Philipsen" <DNJP(at)Gyldendal(dot)dk>
To: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Hi there, having problems with the following:
Date: 2001-03-23 13:10:26
Message-ID: sabb595d.032@gyldendal.dk
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Hi there, having problems with the following:
On Postgresql (on Linux)
I have 3 tables:

1)employee
firstname
lastname
initials

2)has_title
initials
title

3)has_trade
initials
trade

Now, what I would like is to get a list of all employees with all their titles and trades - employees can have zero or several titles/trades.

For testing purposes I made a version in MS Access, in which this works:
(SELECT medarbejder.initialer, fornavn, efternavn, telefon, titel, null AS fag
FROM medarbejder, har_titel, har_fag
where medarbejder.initialer=har_titel.initialer)
UNION
(SELECT medarbejder.initialer, fornavn, efternavn, telefon, null AS titel, fag
FROM medarbejder, har_fag, har_titel
WHERE medarbejder.initialer=har_fag.initialer)

But in Postgresql no such luck:

SELECT medarbejder.initialer, fornavn, efternavn, telefon, titel as titel, null AS fag
FROM medarbejder, har_titel, har_fag
WHERE medarbejder.initialer=har_titel.initialer
UNION
SELECT medarbejder.initialer, fornavn, efternavn, telefon, null as titel, fag AS fag
FROM medarbejder, har_fag, har_titel
WHERE medarbejder.initialer=har_fag.initialer

Only produces an error:
"unable to transform varchar to unknown
Each UNION | EXCEPT | INTERSECT clause must have compatible target"

Any suggestions?
Thanx in advance
Jens

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