From: Jeremy Smith <jer@highboard.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: DISTINCT ON troubles
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:34:39 -0500
Message-ID: <FKEOIJEHOIKIOEHCGNCLIENGEDAA.jer@highboard.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402191128.51124.josh@agliodbs.com>
Thanks Josh,
I'll do that, I just wasn't sure if I was missing something obvious.
Jeremy
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:29 PM
To: jer@highboard.com; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] DISTINCT ON troubles
Jeremy,
> Am I just approaching this all wrong and need to create a temporary table
> and draw from that, or is there a way to salvage this query?
Think about using a subquery instead of the DISTINCT ON approach. I don't
think you can get what you want with DISTINCT ON.
A temporary table is not necessary.
--
-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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