Hi Guys, I can't quite wrap my head around this one ... I have \d docmaster Table "public.docmaster" Column | Type | Modifiers ----------------+------------------------+----------- alias1 | integer | alias2 | character varying(25) | subclass_alias | character varying(25) | docnum | integer | not null version | integer | docname | character varying(255) | Indexes: "docmaster_docnum_key" UNIQUE, btree (docnum)
with the following data: # select * from docmaster ; alias1 | alias2 | subclass_alias | docnum | version | docname --------+-----------+----------------+--------+---------+----------------- 3589 | Completed | Inquiry | 653218 | 1 | My greater doc2 3587 | Pending | Post | 653216 | 3 | My great doc1 3588 | Draft | Reply | 653217 | 1 | My great doc2 3587 | Draft | Reply | 653219 | 2 | My greater doc4 (4 rows) Now I want to find inquiries (subclass_alias = 'Inquiry'), list their status and also (if there's another row that a) has the same alias1, a subclass of Reply and a status (alias2) of pending or redraft.... how do I achieve this? What I have is select docnum, alias1, alias2, subclass_alias from docmaster where (alias1 = ( select alias1 from docmaster where subclass_alias = 'Post' and ( alias2 = 'Pending' or alias2 = 'Redraft' ))) and ( alias2 = 'Pending' or alias2 = 'Draft' ) and subclass_alias <> 'Post' ; docnum | alias1 | alias2 | subclass_alias --------+--------+---------+---------------- 653219 | 3587 | Redraft | Reply (1 row) What I'd really like is to BOTH Post AND reply, with the alias2 for both. Hope this was as clear as mud? :) Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly