Re: Query from two tables return error

On 1 April 2016 at 11:33, arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@gmail.com> wrote:

I have one table email.mail.mailusers :

                                                   Table "email.mailusers"
   Column    |           Type           |                  Modifiers                  | Storage
  | Stats target | Description
-------------+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------+--------
--+--------------+-------------
 username    | text                     | not null                                    | extende
d |              |
 password    | text                     | not null                                    | extende
d |              |
 domain_name | text                     | not null default 'thetradinghall.com'::text | extende
d |              |
 created     | timestamp with time zone | not null default now()                      | plain 
  |              |
Indexes:
    "mailusers_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (username, domain_name)
Foreign-key constraints:
    "mailusers_domain_fk" FOREIGN KEY (domain_name) REFERENCES email.domainlist(domain_name)

    username    |    password  |    domain_name |  created        
----------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+---------------
 arnaud.gaboury | XXXXYYYYYY | thetradinghall.com | 2016-02-04 09:48:58.834774+01

 admin          |XXXYYYYYY | thetradinghall.com | 2016-03-29 09:58:14.599743+02

 postmaster     | XXXYYYYYY | thetradinghall.com | 2016-03-31 16:36:18.96176+02

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I have one view email.mail_dir :

                View "email.mail_dir"
  Column  | Type | Modifiers | Storage  | Description
----------+------+-----------+----------+-------------
 home_dir | text |           | extended |
View definition:
 SELECT ((mailusers.domain_name || '/'::text) || mailusers.username) || '/'::text AS home_dir
   FROM email.mailusers;

              home_dir             
------------------------------------
 thetradinghall.com/arnaud.gaboury/
 thetradinghall.com/admin/
 thetradinghall.com/postmaster/

---------------------------------------------

What I am trying to do: I want the <home_dir> be returned for <username> u.

One of many difficulties with computers that they do what you say them to do, not what you think or you think you are saying. :)

Lets see:

 

SELECT d.home_dir
FROM email.mail_dir d, email.mailusers u  <- make a join between mail_dir and mailusers = join every(!) record from the first table with every(!) record from the second table
WHERE u.username='arnaud.gaboury'; <- but I need only those from the joined records where the username is arnaud.gaboury

And there, you have it.

 

You can simply redefine the view.   

 SELECT *,((mailusers.domain_name || '/'::text) || mailusers.username) || '/'::text AS home_dir
   FROM email.mailusers;

Notice the * after the SELECT statement.

So you have all the data plus the homedir.

You can leave out the whole view thing and incorporate the home_dir expression right into your select.

Or you can write a function which makes this to you with the usename as argument.

Regards,

Sándor