On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 08:14:43PM +1300, Steve Castellotti wrote:
>
>Hello all-
>I'm working with a poorly-designed schema and need to do a lookup in
> one
>table who's name I have to pull from a second table. I'm wondering if its
>possible to do something like this in Postgr
Steve Castellotti wrote:
SELECT name FROM (SELECT table_name FROM media WHERE media_id=1);
You can try something like:
SELECT name FROM audio JOIN media ON id
WHERE table_name='audio' AND media_id=1
UNION ALL
SELECT name FROM video JOIN media ON id
WHERE table_name='video' AND media_id=1
;
As