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From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
Organization: Ringways Garages Ltd
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: select best price
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:38:48 +0100
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On Wednesday 26 October 2005 4:21 pm, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I've got a table holding item code(cs_id), supplier a/c (co_id) , and
> price (cs_price).
>
> How can I select the rows containing the lowest price for each item
> code?
>
> I've tried various forms of min() etc and know it must be simple but
> I'm stumped.
>
> Gary

I've come up with the select below.  Is there a better/more efficient 
way of doing this?

select cp.cs_id,  from cons_price_details cp, 
  (select cs_id, min(cs_price) as cs_price 
        from cons_price_details 
        group by cs_id
   ) v 
   where cp.cs_id = v.cs_id and cp.cs_price = v.cs_price;

-- 
Gary Stainburn
 
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