On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Sam Mason <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This still seems a little nasty and I'd prefer to do something like: my idea seems nastiest of all: SELECT * FROM ( SELECT COUNT(*) AS rownbr, A1.col1, A1.col2 FROM Mytable AS A1 INNER JOIN Mytable AS A2 ON A1.pkey < A2.pkey AND A1.uid = A2.uid WHERE A1.uid = 'abc' GROUP BY A1.col1, A1.col2 ) AS Y( rownbr, col1, col2 ) FULL JOIN ( SELECT COUNT(*) AS rownbr, B1.col3, B1.col4 FROM Mytable AS B1 INNER JOIN Mytable AS B2 ON B1.pkey < B2.pkey AND B1.uid = B2.uid WHERE A1.uid = 'def' GROUP BY B1.col3, B1.col4 ) AS Z( rownbr, col3, col4 ) ON Y.rownbr = Z.rownbr; but I am pretty sure that this air code works. -- Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. Visit the Los Angeles PostgreSQL Users Group (LAPUG) http://pugs.postgresql.org/lapug