Re: SQL query help!

Tell me what did you try with limit and group by.
Where's IN, why don't you use EXISTS instead. It runs much master !

Regards,
Luis Sousa

Arcadius A. wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I hope that someone here could help.
>
>I'm using PostgreSQL7.1.3
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>I have 3 tables in my DB: the tables are defined in the following way:
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>CREATE TABLE category(
>id SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
>// etc etc
>
>)
>;
>
>CREATE TABLE subcategory(
>id SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
>categoryid int CONSTRAINT subcategory__ref_category
> REFERENCES category (id)
> // etc etc
>)
>;
>
>CREATE TABLE entry(
>entryid SERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
>isapproved CHAR(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'n',
>subcategoryid int CONSTRAINT entry__ref_subcategory
> REFERENCES subcategory (id)
> // atd
>,
>)
>;
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>I have the following SQL query :
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> "SELECT * FROM entry where isapproved='y' AND subcategoryid IN (SELECT id
>FROM subcategory WHERE
>categoryid='"+catID+"') ORDER BY subcategoryid DESC";
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>For a given categoryid( catID), the query will return all entries in the
>"entry" table
>having a corresponding subcategoryid(s)[returned by the inned subquery].
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>But I want to return only a limited number of entries of each
>subcategory..... let's say that I want to return at most 5 entries of each
>subcategory type ( for instance if the inner subquery returns 3 results,
>thus I will be having in total at most 15 entries as relust)....
>
>How can this be achieved?
>
>I'm aware of postgreSQL "LIMIT" and "GROUP BY" clause..... but so far, I'm
>not able to put all this together...
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>Thanks in advance.
>
>Arcadius.
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