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Re: Question about joins, left outer and others

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Jeff Ross <jross@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> To get the output I want above, I'd think I'd need to do a left outer join 
> like this:

> jross@wykids localhost# select ed_cat_name as "Level", pp_ed_cat_subject as 
> "Subject", pp_ed_cat_institution as "Institution" from
> education_categories left outer join people_education_categories on
> (ed_cat_id = pp_ed_cat_id) where pp_ed_cat_pp_id = 1796;

This query is actually equivalent to a plain join.  The reason is that
no null-extended row can possibly satisfy the WHERE clause, since the
WHERE is constraining a field from the inner side of the join.  Remember
WHERE filters the output of the join.

Possibly what you want is

	select ... from
	education_categories left outer join people_education_categories on
	(ed_cat_id = pp_ed_cat_id and pp_ed_cat_pp_id = 1796);

			regards, tom lane

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