Re: Complex view question

Glenn,

First, I think that you would find your own queries easier to debug if you used
some indenting and line breaks to organize the text. Whenever I run into a
query problem, that's what I do and frequently the missed clause or problem
aggregate becomes obvious.

> Query 1: returns correct number of rows
> select * from overperms where username='test' union select * from
> defaultperms where username='test' and vimname not in (select vimname from
> overperms where username='test');
>
> Query 2: return incorrect number of rows
> create view perms as select * from overperms union select * from defaultperms
> where vimname not in (select vimname from overperms);
>
> select * from perms where username='test';

These two are NOT the same query, so it's unsurprising that the counts come out
different. In the second query, you are excluding ALL rows present in
overperms from the count of defaultperms, not just those rows with a username
of 'test'. Thus, if vimname <-> username parings are variable, you will
indeed get different counts for the first query than the second.

Also, I don't think that your query structure is optimal. I think you're
making this harder than it needs to be. However, I can't tell without seeing
your data structure.

-Josh Berkus

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