Re: combination join against multiple tables

So, the final,number of rows for each “a” is the larger row count of “b” and “c” having the same “a”.  Furthermore for the first “n” rows “b” and “c” should be paired together by position.  The smaller count column just gets nulls for the extra rows.

Probably the easiest way is to combine the matches for “b” and “c” into arrays the jointly unnest those arrays in the final result - with in the select list or maybe as part,of a lateral join, not sure without experimentation.

Otherwise you can add “row_number” to “b” and “c” and then left join on (a, row_number).

David J.