Re: only last records in subgroups

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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