Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would like the answer to be "the number of times the word > appears in all three the queries", the intersection of the three > queries. That's still not entirely clear to me. If there are two 'f' rows, three 's' rows, and four 'n' rows, do you want to see an answer of 2 (which seems like the intersection you request here), 9 (which is the sum), 24 (which is the product), or something else? If you really want the intersection, perhaps: with x as ( select word, count(*) as countall, count(case when filetype = 'f' then 1 else null end) as countf, count(case when filetype = 's' then 1 else null end) as as counts, count(case when filetype = 'n' then 1 else null end) as as countn from unique_words ) select word, least(countf, counts, countn) from x where countf > 0 and counts > 0 and countn > 0 order by word; -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance