How to sort by count with postgresql?
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05-07-2019 - |
Question
I have two tables:
Companies: (id, name, city)
Workers: (id, name)
I would like to get all companies and sort them by numbers of employes.
The result should give:
count | company id | company name | city
------------------------------------------
90 6 foo corp NY
45 9 bar corp LA
0 3 foobar corp HO
I tried:
select
c.*,
count(w.id) as c
from
companies c
left join
workers w
on
c.id = w.company_id
group by
c.id
order by
c desc;
But that's not working as it tells me to group by g.name too :/
Any ideas?
Solution
You've aliased the table and column as the same thing, so don't do that. It's not invalid, just tough to follow.
Anyway, include all columns that you're selecting that aren't aggregates in your group by
:
select
count(w.id) as mycount,
w.company_id,
c.company_name,
c.city
from
companies c
left join workers w on
c.id=w.company_id
group by
w.company_id,
c.company_name,
c.city
order by mycount desc;
OTHER TIPS
Try this as a subquery:
SELECT C.*
FROM
(
SELECT C.Id, C.Company_Name, C.City, COUNT(W.Id) AS CNT
FROM Companies C
LEFT JOIN Workers W ON W.Company_Id = C.Id
GROUP BY C.Id, C.Company_Name, C.City
) T
ORDER BY T.CNT
If you don't want the count result to be return (because of an ORM framework or so) you could apply it directly in the order by clause:
select
c.*
from
companies c
left join
workers w
on
c.id = w.company_id
group by
c.id
order by
count(w.id) desc;
Tested in postgreSQL 11
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