Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:47:43 +0100
From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: sub-limiting a query
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Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-sql@apartia.org> schrieb:

> ballet,etc.) and I am looking for a select that can return the 10 last 
> entered shows AND at most 2 of each type. Is that possible in one query?

A similar question i found in the archive and there are a couple of
answers: (for the second part of your question)

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2005-03/msg00408.php

But as i said, there is no plain sql-solution. Unfortunately we haven't
windowing functions, but perhaps in the future, Gavin Sharry is working
on this. Take a look at
http://www.gavinsherry.org/blog/index.php?/archives/7-Window-function-presentation.html


Andreas
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