Using Postgresql’s Union
The popular way to combine datasets in SQL is join, which combines data horizontally - the result set has the columns from both datasets. However, I recently pushed an update to The Fencing Database that involved combining results from two queries vertically - I wanted to treat the results as one long result set. The way to do this is an SQL command called union.
It’s simple enough to use. Here’s the syntax:
The only prerequisite is that both SELECT statements return the same number and type of columns. Another thing to note is that this will do a true math-style union, and delete all duplicate rows. If you want to include the duplicate rows, use UNION ALL instead of UNION. The final gotcha is that the final column names will be whatever the names are in the first column. For more, see the docs.