From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: only last records in subgroups
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:35:04 +0300 (EEST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408171434210.31368-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040817104437.93301.qmail@web40110.mail.yahoo.com>
O kyrios Dino Vliet egrapse stis Aug 17, 2004 :
> Hi there,
>
> I'm having hard times with the following query:
> I want to select only the last records from a subgroup
> in a table. But because the subgroup contains
> different number of records for every id, I don't know
> how to specify that. For example, check the following
> table,
> id, day
> x,300
> x,250,
> x,0
> y,250
> y,4
>
> I only want the records
> x,0 and y,4 but how do I manage this in sql? I was
> hoping for a keyword LAST or so, where I can specify
> that when I've ordered my results with order by, I
> could only get the last of the subgroups (the first
> one is easy because I could use limit 1)
>
Try,
SELECT min(day),id from reg group by id;
min | id
-----+----
4 | y
0 | x
(2 rows)
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
>
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