I didn't read all the entire problem but try to use
WHERE instead of WHEN.
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
----- Original Message -----
From: "javier garcia - CEBAS" <rn001@cebas.csic.es>
To: "pgsql-sqL" <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: [SQL] EXTERN JOIN with WHEN query
> Hi all;
> This is a query that I guess is not very dificult, but I'm a newbie;
> I've got a lot of tables, each of them with two columns:
>
> SELECT * FROM precal; ->
> (date) (real)
> fecha | precipitacion
> ------------+---------------
> 1996-01-01 | 0.6
> 1996-02-01 | 0.7
> ...
>
>
> But in this table there are some inexistents records (some missing days)
> And I would like to create lists with a full list of dates and
corresponding
> precipitation data, with gaps when the row didn't exist.
> So; I've created a table with a complete series of dates from 1950 up to
> date, and made the query:
>
> SELECT fechas.fecha,precipitacion FROM fechas LEFT OUTER JOIN precal41 ON
> (fechas.fecha = precal41.fecha);
>
> This is perfect. But to make it better, would like to include just the
dates
> from the first one in the precal table. So, I've tried:
>
> SELECT fechas.fecha,precipitacion FROM fechas LEFT OUTER JOIN precal41 ON
> (fechas.fecha = precal41.fecha) WHEN fechas.fecha >= min(precal41.fecha);
> With the answer:
>
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "WHEN"
>
> Could you help me with this query?
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> Javier
>
>
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