In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kretschmer Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> I have a table with this columns: machine, date and area.
> Now i need a view with machine an week, calculated from date, and
> sum(area), where date between CURRENT_DATE and now+N days.
> Okay, this is not the problem, it works fine.
> (the original table and the view is more complex)
> The problem is, i need also rows for machine and week with no entrys in
> the table. For this rows the sum(area) shold be NULL ore 0.
> In other words: for every machine i need M rows, and M must be constant.
Week values don't automagically spring into existance when there are
no corresponding entries in your table. Use a set-returning function
for generating the week values you're interested in, and left-join
your table to the SRF.
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