Re: views and null bothering

Martin,

> I have a bunch of tables which I give access through a view. The
> problem is 
> that in the main table there are columns, that are referenced to
> another 
> tables column, that have NULLs.
> In the SELECT inside the view's definition I put the join equality,
> but have 
> lots of trouble makeing it put correctly the columns that have NULL
> values.

You need to use LEFT OUTER JOIN, supported in Postgres 7.1.x.

See the current postgresql docs, or your favorite ANSI-SQL handbook, for
guidance.

-Josh Berkus


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