From: Sjors <jkwast@freeler.nl>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: howto?
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:09:31 +0100
Message-ID: <008901c2eca7$fa181110$04a779d9@cc299057a> (raw)
Hi,
Being not able to grasp in full sql, I've decided to call on the list. I've got a table with points, place_id and distance between points and place_id. For each point there can be more place_id's but I want to selesct the one with the minimum distance. Now I can group by the points and select the min(distance) but I can't do this if place_id is involved. I used a statment like this:
Select points, place_id, distance from table
group by points, place_id, distance
having count(*)>1 and distance=(select min(distance) from table
This will give me 1 value being the minimum of all distances.
If only done on basis of points and distance I do get the minimum values, but then I don't have the place_id.
How can I get the minimum values of the place_id within in the group of points, being the same?
I've looked and played around with variations round but I can't figure out how to do this. Any suggestions??
greetz sjors
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