Select last there dates

From: "Loredana Curugiu" <loredana(dot)curugiu(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Select last there dates
Date: 2007-06-21 08:18:13
Message-ID: 1c23c8e70706210118h6b9490e3s11e2a6ba15cdff6c@mail.gmail.com
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Hello again,

I have the following two tables:

Table 1:
uid | phone_number |
-----+-------------------------------
8 | +40741775621 |
8 | +40741775622 |
8 | +40741775623 |
9 | +40741775621 |
9 | +40741775622 |
9 | +40741775623 |
10 | +40741775621 |
10 | +40741775622 |
10 | +40741775623 |
7 | +40741775621 |
7 | +40741775622 |
7 | +40741775623 |
11 | +40741775621 |
11 | +40741775622 |
11 | +40741775623 |

Table2:

uid | phone_number | date
---------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------
8 | +40741775621 | 2007-06-21 10:40:00+00
8 | +40741775621 | 2007-05-21 10:40:00+00
8 | +40741775621 | 2007-04-21 10:40:00+00
8 | +40741775621 | 2007-03-21 10:40:00+00
8 | +40741775621 | 2007-06-20 10:40:00+00
8 | +40741775621 | 2007-06-19 10:40:00+00
8 | +40741775621 | 2007-06-18 10:40:00+00
8 | +40741775622 | 2007-06-16 10:40:00+00
8 | +40741775622 | 2007-06-15 10:40:00+00
7 | +40741775622 | 2007-06-21 05:54:13.646457+00
7 | +40741775621 | 2007-06-21 05:54:21.134469+00

For each uid column from table1 I have different values phone_number
column.

For each uid and phone_number columns from table2 I have different
values for date column.

My task is to create a query which for a given uid returns all values
for phone_number column from table1 and last three values of date
column from table2.

For example, if uid=8 the query should return:

phone_number | date
-----------------------+------------
+40741775621 | 2007-06-21, 2007-06-20, 2007-06-19
+40741775622 | 2007-06-16, 2007-06-15
+40741775623 |

I created the query

SELECT table1.phone_number,
TO_CHAR( table2.date, 'YYYY-MM-DD' ) AS date
FROM ( SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE uid=8 ) table1
LEFT JOIN table2
ON table1.uid=8
AND table1.uid=table2.uid
AND table1.phone_number=table2.phone_number

which returns.

phone_number | date
--------------+------------
+40741775621 | 2007-06-18
+40741775621 | 2007-06-19
+40741775621 | 2007-06-20
+40741775621 | 2007-03-21
+40741775621 | 2007-04-21
+40741775621 | 2007-05-21
+40741775621 | 2007-06-21
+40741775622 | 2007-06-15
+40741775622 | 2007-06-16
+40741775623 |

I don't know how to use this result for obtaining the result I need.
I was thinking to get the dates for the phone_number into a array
and then to use array_to string function, but I don't know how to do it.
Any help, please?

Loredana

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