On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:29:11AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > I want all the records of the > url table, one row for each record, plus the userid field that goes with > it, for a specified user (paulf), with NULLs as needed Maybe something like this? SELECT a.userid, u.url FROM urls u LEFT JOIN access a ON u.id = a.url_id AND a.userid = 'paulf'; > I can do *part* of this with various JOINs, but the moment I specify > userid = 'paulf', I don't get the rows with NULLs. I guess you were putting "userid = 'paulf'" into the WHERE clause, that's the wrong place. It needs to be up in the ON clause. -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general