Mysql: how to select groups having certain values?
You could try a self join (N tag_id -> N join) but probably it's not fast
SELECT t1.post_id
FROM tags t1 INNER JOIN tags t2 ON t1.post_id = t2.post_id
WHERE t1.tag_id = 1 AND t2.tag_id = 3
I've made some assumptions about your other tables. (i.e. that you have a table for posts that I have called posts
and one with tag_id as the PK which I have called tag_table
to avoid a nameclash with the posts/tags table that I can see you already call tags
)
You want posts where there does not exist a tag in the list {1,3} for which there does not exist a matching record with the corresponding post_id/tag_id so you can use a double NOT EXISTS construct as below.
SELECT post_id
FROM posts p
WHERE NOT EXISTS
(SELECT * FROM tag_table tt
WHERE tag_id IN (1,3)
AND NOT EXISTS
(SELECT * FROM tags t
WHERE t.tag_id = tt.tag_id and
p.post_id = t.post_id)
)
Another alternative approach is to use Group By and Count. A review of approaches to this problem is here.
If there aren't any unique constraints try:
SELECT post_id
FROM tags
WHERE tag_id = 1 OR tag_id = 3
GROUP BY post_id
HAVING count(DISTINCT tag_id) = 2;
Or use this HAVING
clause, if trying to detect only two tag_id
values:
HAVING MIN(tag_id) <> MAX(tag_id)
If post_id and tag_id both have an unique constraint, this should work too:
SELECT post_id
FROM tags
WHERE tag_id = 1 OR tag_id = 3
GROUP BY post_id
HAVING count(*) = 2;
SELECT post_id
FROM ( SELECT post_id,
count(tag_id) AS counter
FROM tags
WHERE tag_id IN (1,3)
GROUP BY post_id
)
WHERE counter = 2
Use GROUP_CONCAT() for the second part of your question
SELECT post_id,
GROUP_CONCAT(tag_id ORDER BY tag_id ASC SEPARATOR ',')
FROM tags