Question

I am trying to write the following query on postgresql:

select name, author_id, count(1), 
    (select count(1)
    from names as n2
    where n2.id = n1.id
        and t2.author_id = t1.author_id
    )               
from names as n1
group by name, author_id

This would certainly work on Microsoft SQL Server but it does not at all on postegresql. I read its documentation a bit and it seems I could rewrite it as:

select name, author_id, count(1), total                     
from names as n1, (select count(1) as total
    from names as n2
    where n2.id = n1.id
        and n2.author_id = t1.author_id
    ) as total
group by name, author_id

But that returns the following error on postegresql: “subquery in FROM cannot refer to other relations of same query level”. So I’m stuck. Does anyone know how I can achieve that?

Thanks

Answer 1

I’m not sure I understand your intent perfectly, but perhaps the following would be close to what you want:

select n1.name, n1.author_id, count_1, total_count
  from (select id, name, author_id, count(1) as count_1
          from names
          group by id, name, author_id) n1
inner join (select id, author_id, count(1) as total_count
              from names
              group by id, author_id) n2
  on (n2.id = n1.id and n2.author_id = n1.author_id)

Unfortunately this adds the requirement of grouping the first subquery by id as well as name and author_id, which I don’t think was wanted. I’m not sure how to work around that, though, as you need to have id available to join in the second subquery. Perhaps someone else will come up with a better solution.