From: Gerardo Herzig <gherzig@fmed.uba.ar>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: an aggregate to return max() - 1 value?
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:14:00 -0300
Message-ID: <4B901488.6080502@fmed.uba.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100304200913.GA24865@apartia.fr>
References: <20100304200913.GA24865@apartia.fr>
Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With builtin aggregates is it possible to return the value just before
> max(col)?
>
> Thanks,
>
Mmmm what about
select max(col) from table where col not in (select max(col) from table;
? Looks like a double table reading, but it works.
Gerardo
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