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Help writing a piece of SQL
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| Nigel Bishop 2006-02-03, 7:23 am |
| Hi, I would appreciate some help writing a piece of SQL
PG803
My table/data looks like this:
username | domain | sendto
+-------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------
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Postmaster | intthit08.uk.rabbit.com | root
root | intthit08.uk.rabbit.com | is-unix@rabbit.com
stoat.griffin | trusting.co.uk | stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
stoat.griffin | trusting.com | stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
stoat.griffin | rusty.co.uk | stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
stoat.griffin | rusty.com | stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
matilda.clematis | trusting.com |
matilda.clematis@rabbit.com
matilda.clematis | trusting.co.uk |
matilda.clematis@rabbit.com
matilda.clematis | rusty.co.uk |
matilda.clematis@rabbit.com
matilda.clematis | rusty.com |
matilda.clematis@rabbit.com
* | trusting.com | rusty@rabbit.com
* | trusting.co.uk | rusty@rabbit.com
* | rusty.co.uk | rusty@rabbit.com
* | rusty.com | rusty@rabbit.com
* | windoze.com | windoze@badger.com
* | windoze.co.uk | windoze@badger.com
admin | windoze.co.uk |
matilda.clematis@rabbit.com
admin | windoze.com |
matilda.clematis@rabbit.com
* | saxon.co.uk | superR@uk.diamond.com
* | saxon.com | superR@uk.diamond.com
The query will have the username and domain passed in as variables.
If the username and domain exist then return the sendto
The bit I'm struggling with is if the username doesn't exist then return
the sendto where the domain exists
e.g. username=fred (this doesn't exist) and domain=rusty.com then
return rusty@rabbit.com, matilda.clematis@rabbit.com,
stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
Any help on this would very much appreciated; it's been driving me mad
for the last day.
Thanks
Nigel
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| Richard Huxton 2006-02-03, 7:23 am |
| Nigel Bishop wrote:
>
> username | domain | sendto
> +-------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------
> -----
>
> Postmaster | intthit08.uk.rabbit.com | root
> root | intthit08.uk.rabbit.com | is-unix@rabbit.com
> stoat.griffin | trusting.co.uk | stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
> stoat.griffin | trusting.com | stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
> stoat.griffin | rusty.co.uk | stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
> stoat.griffin | rusty.com | stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
> * | trusting.com | rusty@rabbit.com
> * | trusting.co.uk | rusty@rabbit.com
> * | rusty.co.uk | rusty@rabbit.com
> * | rusty.com | rusty@rabbit.com
> The query will have the username and domain passed in as variables.
> If the username and domain exist then return the sendto
> The bit I'm struggling with is if the username doesn't exist then return
> the sendto where the domain exists
>
> e.g. username=fred (this doesn't exist) and domain=rusty.com then
> return rusty@rabbit.com, matilda.clematis@rabbit.com,
> stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
So: if the username doesn't exist then you return ALL rows with a
matching domain? Not just username="*"?
I'm guessing I've mis-understood and you just want username="*", which
would be something like this:
SELECT sendto, 1 AS priority FROM tbl WHERE username=$1 AND domain=$2
UNION ALL
SELECT sendto, 2 AS priority FROM tbl WHERE username='*' AND domain=$2
ORDER BY priority
LIMIT 1;
Does that help at all?
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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| Nigel Bishop 2006-02-03, 7:23 am |
| Thanks for that Richard, it's almost what I'm after:
So where the un and dm exist then return 1 row
Where the un doestn't exist and dm does then return all sendtos' where
the dm exists not just where the un='*'
I hope that makes sense.
Thanks for you help
Nigel Bishop
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From: Richard Huxton & #91;mailto:dev@archo
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Sent: 03 February 2006 11:02
To: Nigel Bishop
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Help writing a piece of SQL
Nigel Bishop wrote:
>
> username | domain | sendto
>
+-------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------
> -----
>
> Postmaster | intthit08.uk.rabbit.com | root
> root | intthit08.uk.rabbit.com | is-unix@rabbit.com
> stoat.griffin | trusting.co.uk |
stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
> stoat.griffin | trusting.com |
stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
> stoat.griffin | rusty.co.uk |
stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
> stoat.griffin | rusty.com |
stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
> * | trusting.com | rusty@rabbit.com
> * | trusting.co.uk | rusty@rabbit.com
> * | rusty.co.uk | rusty@rabbit.com
> * | rusty.com | rusty@rabbit.com
> The query will have the username and domain passed in as variables.
> If the username and domain exist then return the sendto
> The bit I'm struggling with is if the username doesn't exist then
return
> the sendto where the domain exists
>
> e.g. username=fred (this doesn't exist) and domain=rusty.com then
> return rusty@rabbit.com, matilda.clematis@rabbit.com,
> stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
So: if the username doesn't exist then you return ALL rows with a
matching domain? Not just username="*"?
I'm guessing I've mis-understood and you just want username="*", which
would be something like this:
SELECT sendto, 1 AS priority FROM tbl WHERE username=$1 AND domain=$2
UNION ALL
SELECT sendto, 2 AS priority FROM tbl WHERE username='*' AND domain=$2
ORDER BY priority
LIMIT 1;
Does that help at all?
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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| Niklas Johansson 2006-02-03, 7:23 am |
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On 3 feb 2006, at 11.43, Nigel Bishop wrote:
> The query will have the username and domain passed in as variables.
> If the username and domain exist then return the sendto
> The bit I’m struggling with is if the username doesn’t exist then
> return the sendto where the domain exists
>
> e.g. username=fred (this doesn’t exist) and domain=rusty.com then
> returnrusty@rabbit.com, matilda.clematis@rabbit.com,
> stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
I think this could do the trick for you:
SELECT sendto FROM users t1
WHERE domain='rusty.com' AND (username='fred') = EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM
users t2 WHERE username='fred' and domain=t1.domain);
Sincerely,
Niklas Johansson
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| Nigel Bishop 2006-02-03, 7:23 am |
| Niklas,
Thank you very much, that did the business
Cheers
Nigel Bishop
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Sent: 03 February 2006 13:00
To: Nigel Bishop
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Help writing a piece of SQL
On 3 feb 2006, at 11.43, Nigel Bishop wrote:
> The query will have the username and domain passed in as variables.
> If the username and domain exist then return the sendto
> The bit I'm struggling with is if the username doesn't exist then
> return the sendto where the domain exists
>
> e.g. username=fred (this doesn't exist) and domain=rusty.com then
> returnrusty@rabbit.com, matilda.clematis@rabbit.com,
> stoat.griffin@rabbit.com
I think this could do the trick for you:
SELECT sendto FROM users t1
WHERE domain='rusty.com' AND (username='fred') = EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM
users t2 WHERE username='fred' and domain=t1.domain);
Sincerely,
Niklas Johansson
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| Niklas Johansson 2006-02-03, 7:24 am |
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On 3 feb 2006, at 14.06, Nigel Bishop wrote:
> Thank you very much, that did the business
This should generate the same plan as the previous query, but be a
little bit more clean and easy to read:
SELECT sendto FROM users t1
WHERE domain='rusty.com' AND
username = COALESCE((SELECT username FROM users WHERE username='fred'
and domain=t1.domain), username);
Sincerely,
Niklas Johansson
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