Multiple selects on joined tables with group by? - sql

Question

I have three tables with the structures outlined below:
CREATE TABLE users (
id BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
username VARCHAR(255) UNIQUE
);
CREATE TABLE posts (
id BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
user_id BIGINT REFERENCES users(id) NOT NULL,
category BIGINT REFERENCES categories(id) NOT NULL,
text TEXT NOT NULL
);
CREATE TABLE posts_votes (
user_id BIGINT REFERENCES users(id) NOT NULL,
post_id BIGINT REFERENCES posts(id) NOT NULL
value SMALLINT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(user_id, post_id)
);
I was able to compose a query that gets each post with its user and its total value using the below query:
SELECT p.id, p.text, u.username, COALESCE(SUM(v.value), 0) AS vote_value
FROM posts p
LEFT JOIN posts_votes v ON p.id=t.post_id
JOIN users u ON p.user_id=u.id
WHERE posts.category=1337
GROUP BY p.id, p.text, u.username
But now I want to also return a column that returns the result of SELECT COALESCE((SELECT value FROM posts_votes WHERE user_id=1234 AND post_id=n), 0) for each post_id n in the above query. What would be the best way to do this?

Answer 1

I think an additional LEFT JOIN is a reasonable approach:
SELECT p.id, p.text, u.username, COALESCE(SUM(v.value), 0) AS vote_value,
COALESCE(pv.value, 0)
FROM posts p JOIN
users u
ON p.user_id=u.id LEFT JOIN
topics_votes v
ON p.id = t.post_id LEFT JOIN
post_votes pv
ON pv.user_id = 1234 AND pv.post_id = p.id
WHERE p.category = 1337
GROUP BY p.id, p.text, u.username, pv.value;