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Thanks for the suggestions, 

combining your and Guillaume Lelarge suggestions
I was able to get it two work.

I had to do two things.  

1.  take away the with's and just drop them into my from statement
2. remove the order by's

so the working sql is as follows:


select
'Phone 611 IVR',
'New States',
b.node,
a.accesses as old,
b.accesses as new
from
(
select
channel,
node,
accesses
from 
storage
where monthly = '11-06'
) as a right join (
select
channel,
node,
accesses
from 
storage
where monthly = '11-07'
) as b on a.node=b.node
where
a.accesses is null
and
b.channel = '611 IVR'




union all



select
'Web OLAM',
'New States',
b.node,
a.accesses as old,
b.accesses as new
from
(
select
channel,
node,
accesses
from 
storage
where monthly = '11-06'
) as a right join (
select
channel,
node,
accesses
from 
storage
where monthly = '11-07'
) as b on a.node=b.node
where
a.accesses is null
and
b.channel = 'olam'




Thanks again for the help.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Joy Smith <freestuffanddeals@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> column types are the same so I don't know why this 'union all' is failing.

It's a syntax error --- got nothing to do with column types.

I think what you need to do is parenthesize the first subquery.  ORDER
BY isn't allowed to be attached to a UNION subquery otherwise.  You're
probably going to need to parenthesize the second subquery too ---
otherwise it will think that that ORDER BY applies to the UNION result,
not the subquery.

I don't offhand remember the syntactic precedence of WITH versus UNION,
but trying to attach WITHs to the subqueries might be another reason to
need parentheses.

                       regards, tom lane


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