Re: Simple way to get missing number

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:15:26AM -0400, Emi Lu wrote:
> May I know is there a simple sql command which could return missing
> numbers please?
> For example,
> t1(id integer)
> values= 1, 2, 3 .... 5000000
> select miss_num(id)
> from   t1 ;

select generate_series( (select min(id) from t1), (select max(id) from
t1))
except
select id from t1;

Best regards,

depesz

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