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From: "Oliveiros C," <oliveiros.cristina@marktest.pt>
To: "Gary Stainburn" <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>,
	<pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
References: <200909241616.36933.gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
Subject: Re: simple (?) join
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:17:06 +0100
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You mean
to list the complete orders table and for each of its records, the 
corresponding record on the orders_log with the latest ol_timestamp?


SELECT *
FROM orders_log main
JOIN
(
SELECT orders.*,  MAX(orders_log.ol_timestamp) as latest
FROM orders
NATURAL JOIN orders_log
GROUP BY orders.*
) subquery
ON main.ol_timestamp = subquery.latest
AND main.o_id = subquery.o_id

This query is untested, but could you give it a try?

Then tell me the results.

NB - I am not sure if it is legal to use * on a GROUP BY clause, but if it 
isnt please kindly substitute by orders.o_id, orders.next_field, etc...

Best,
Oliveiros


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Stainburn" <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:16 PM
Subject: [SQL] simple (?) join


> Hi folks.
>
> I have two tables
>
> create table orders (
> o_id serial primary key
> ...
> );
>
> create table orders_log (
> ol_id serial primary key,
> o_id int4 not null references orders(o_id),
> ol_timestamp timestamp,
> ol_user,
> );
>
> How can I select all from orders and the last (latest) entry from the
> orders_log?
>
> Cheers
> -- 
> Gary Stainburn
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