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From: Rodrigo De León <rdeleonp@gmail.com>
To: Jamie Tufnell <diesql@googlemail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Having difficulty writing a "best-fit" query..
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:11:16 -0500
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On 10/16/07, Jamie Tufnell <diesql@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm taking a subset of all my genres, and I want to get ONE row for each
> movie in the subset alongside its most appropriate genre (whichever has the
> highest relevance).  In other words, the best fit.

You didn't provide the expected output, but try:

SELECT *
  FROM t tt
 WHERE relevance = (SELECT MAX(relevance)
                      FROM t
                     WHERE movie_id = tt.movie_id)



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