>>>>> "Ondřej" == Ondřej Bouda <obo...@email.cz> writes:
Ondřej> What about subqueries? Ondřej> SELECT Ondřej> items.*, Ondřej> (SELECT array_agg(color_name) FROM colors WHERE item_id = Ondřej> items.id) AS color_names, Ondřej> (SELECT array_agg(image_file) FROM images WHERE item_id = Ondřej> items.id) AS image_files Ondřej> FROM items Ondřej> According to my experience, not only the code is readable (no Ondřej> questions about how many rows are there for each item), but it Ondřej> also leads to a better query plan. This is (generally speaking) no improvement over the LATERAL method I showed, and is less flexible (for example it's very painful to return more than one value from the subqueries). -- Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
