From: | Wes James <comptekki(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Carlos Mennens <carlos(dot)mennens(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "PostgreSQL (SQL)" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Finding Max Value in a Row |
Date: | 2012-05-11 19:17:14 |
Message-ID: | CAFjCMHsLXjMHQpw_X+2uO9D+LVZx2yKOUzCpmHVSWh=5EwM+YA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Carlos Mennens
<carlos(dot)mennens(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I have a problem in SQL I don't know how to solve and while I'm sure
> there are 100+ ways to do this in ANSI SQL, I'm trying to find the
> most cleanest / efficient way. I have a table called 'users' and the
> field 'users_id' is listed as the PRIMARY KEY. I know I can use the
> COUNT function, then I know exactly how many records are listed but I
> don't know what the maximum or highest numeric value is so that I can
> use the next available # for a newly inserted record. Sadly the
> architect of this table didn't feel the need to create a sequence and
> I don't know how to find the highest value.
select max(row_name) as max_val from table;
Why not create a sequence on the current data then use currval() to
get the max value.
-wes
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