Re: [GENERAL] the last row in a table

From: Oleg Broytmann <phd(at)sun(dot)med(dot)ru>
To: hoelc <hoelc(at)pd(dot)jaring(dot)my>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] the last row in a table
Date: 1999-03-10 08:42:06
Message-ID: Pine.SOL2.3.96.SK.990310114052.6083H-100000@sun.med.ru
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Hi!

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, hoelc wrote:
> I am developing a database with PostgreSQL in Linux, and using ecpg to write the
> C program to communicate with the database.
> One of my application need to get the data from the last row in a table.
> Is there any function or command that can tract which is the last row of data in
> a table?

Reorder your query to get the data in the FIRST row and use cursor to fetch
just the row.

> Thank you.
> Regards,
> lch

Oleg.
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Oleg Broytmann National Research Surgery Centre http://sun.med.ru/~phd/
Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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