catch SELECT statement return

sconeek@gmail.com wrote:

hi all,
i am working on this postgresql statement. it picks up all non-null
values only. is there a way to pickup all hour values (if any hour
value not existing, still find them and assign their value to be 0).
coz my table does not contain all hour values, only ones which have a
non-zero value.

SELECT to_timestamp(to_char (last_edit_timestamp,'YYYY-MM-DD
HH24:00:00'), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:00:00')AS edit_time, count(to_char
(last_edit_timestamp,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:00:00'))
as edit_time_count FROM dbpt_containerlog GROUP BY to_char
(last_edit_timestamp,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:00:00') ORDER BY to_char
(last_edit_timestamp,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:00:00');

I don't think it's possible. It won't come up with a left outer join
because you aren't comparing to anything unless you have a second table
with all of the times you want to compare.

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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:31:54 +1100,
Chris <dmagick@gmail.com> wrote:

sconeek@gmail.com wrote:

i am working on this postgresql statement. it picks up all non-null
values only. is there a way to pickup all hour values (if any hour
value not existing, still find them and assign their value to be 0).
coz my table does not contain all hour values, only ones which have a
non-zero value.

I don't think it's possible. It won't come up with a left outer join
because you aren't comparing to anything unless you have a second table
with all of the times you want to compare.

Left joining against the output of generate_series could be used to do this.