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I am attempting to create an employment change map using a hex grid. I have individual establishment data as points with attached employment figures. When I ran the spatial join using the postGIS extension in QGIS 2.6 it returns all of the hexes where the join is true, as expected. But for cartographic sake I would like the whole net return where I could symbolize the null cells myself and not just have them drop out.

Is there a way to do this through postGIS similar to the return all features option in ArcMap's spatial join? My sample code right now.

--view joining employment data to hexagon grid
   CREATE VIEW food_employment_2yr_hex AS
SELECT a.gid AS gid, sum(b.avgemp) AS Emp_2010, sum(c.avgemp) AS Emp_2012,   a.geom AS geom
    FROM hex_grid_pdx_nad83 a, qcew_2010_nad83 b, 
    qcew_2012_nad83 c
    WHERE ST_Within(b.geom, a.geom) AND ST_Within(c.geom,a.geom)
    GROUP BY a.gid;
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    Google OUTER JOIN
    – Vince
    Commented Jul 18, 2015 at 19:21
  • I found something similar here: gis.stackexchange.com/questions/111082/spatial-joining-syntax that looks like it may answer the question. not a pure outer join, but allows that functionality for spatial joins Commented Jul 18, 2015 at 19:32
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    If you are keeping all the features then the spatial join becomes irrelevant. It is simply a full (or outer join) as Vince says. Commented Jul 19, 2015 at 9:18
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    You can also use a LEFT JOIN to keep all the records from one of the tables. An OUTER JOIN keeps both tables.
    – Mike T
    Commented Jul 20, 2015 at 22:34

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