Re: Several left outer joins on a same table

    Try something like:

select l1.lieu_nom, l2.lieu_num
  from Personne p left outer join Lieu l1 on lieu_id=lieu1
       left outer join Lieu l2 on lieu_id=lieu2

Aaron

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Th Templ wrote:
> Here are my tables
>
> Personne
> ------------
> int lieu1
> int lieu2
>
> Lieu
> ------------
> int lieu_id
> varchar(50) lieu_nom
>
> I want to have in a single request the name of lieu1 and/or lieu2 in the
> 'Lieu' table if there is a correspondance and if there are not null.
> I see the postgresql documentation and I have no problem to make one left
> outer join, but two??
>
> Thans for your answers
> Templ
>
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