Here is the SQL I am working with: -- SELECT products.*, orders.response_code FROM "products" JOIN items ON products.id = items.product_id LEFT OUTER JOIN orders ON (items.order_id = orders.id AND orders.response_code = '0' AND orders.user_id = 2) WHERE (permalink = E'product-1' AND products.site_id = 1) LIMIT 1 -- An order has been paid when its response_code is 0. One problem I have is that, if the user has not placed an order for the product, than I still want the product fields to be returned so I can't put this condition in a WHERE. If a user has paid an order for that product, I want all fields from Product to be returned and I want also the response_code to be returned (it will obviously be 0). But in the current state of the query, even if there exists a paid order for the current user_id, then the query misses it and therefore never returns the response_code. What's wrong with it? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general