Whats exactly is wrong with the following query? select dx date, nx, nx1 from test t join test1 t1 on t.dx=t1.dx1 ; ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Smith" <randomdev4+postgres@xxxxxxxxx> To: "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 2:56:19 PM Subject: Merging timeseries in postgres Hi, I've got a bit of query-writers block ! I've tried various join styles but can't get it to do what I want to achieve. Assume I have a bunch of time-series tables : create table test(dx date,n numeric); create table test1(dx1 date,nx1 numeric); insert into test values('2000-01-01','0.001'); insert into test1 values('2002-01-02','0.002'); insert into test1 values('2003-01-03','0.002'); What I want to do is create a view that merges these together with time as the index, i.e the output would look like : 2000-01-01 0.001 (null) 2002-01-02 (null) 0.002 2003-01-03 (null) 0.003 I can't quite figure out how to keep the index independent and make a clean join, typical outer join constructs end up with results like : dx | nx | dx1 | nx1 ----+----+------------+------- | | 2002-01-02 | 0.001 | | 2003-01-02 | 0.002 (2 rows) dx | nx | dx1 | nx1 ------------+-------+------------+------- 2000-01-02 | 0.005 | | | | 2002-01-02 | 0.001 | | 2003-01-02 | 0.002 Which isn't very pretty and doesn't really achieve what I want. As I said "sql-writers block !" ;-( Tim -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general