Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of UsersWikiExamplesJoinTables

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04/14/09 08:54:39 (16 years ago)

Author:

pierre

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UsersWikiExamplesJoinTables

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+= Examples Join Tables =
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+An attribute join is often needed when you need to associate a tabular data source with features. A left join is appropriate in this case since we want to retain all the spatial features and append the tabular attributes only where a match occurs.
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+For example, lets say we have two tables:
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+ * parcel  (with an "id" column and spatial geometry)
+ * owner (with an "id" column and owner information for that parcel id)
+
+----
+
+
+{{{
+CREATE TABLE parceljoin (id integer, ownername text);
+
+SELECT AddGeometryColumn('public', 'parceljoin','the_geom','4326','POLYGON',2);
+
+INSERT INTO parceljoin
+SELECT p.id as id, o.ownername as ownername, p.the_geom as the_geom
+FROM parcel p
+LEFT JOIN owners o ON o.id = p.id;
+
+}}}