From: | Henry House <hajhouse(at)houseag(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | GROUP BY and aggregate functions |
Date: | 2001-07-16 13:01:15 |
Message-ID: | 20010716060114.A2118@houseag.com |
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It appears that ther is no way to use an aggregate function ( max() ) without
also using GROUP BY. I'm trying to do something different, though. I have a
table of values and dates. I would like to return only the most recent row
for each value (which could be a username, to keep track of the user's
current widget count while preserving old values for recordkeeping). Like
this:
testdb=> select val, max(postdate) from status group by val;
val| max
----+------------------------
0 | 2001-07-16 05:31:01-07
1 | 2001-07-16 05:31:12-07
(2 rows)
except that I also need the (user's, whatever's) unique id to do any joins.
This is as close as I can get: there is now one row for each value of id. I
only want the value of id for the row that matches max(postdate).
testdb=> select val, max(postdate), id from status group by val, id;
val| max |id
----+------------------------+---
0 | 2001-07-16 04:43:02-07 | 0
0 | 2001-07-16 05:31:01-07 | 3
1 | 2001-07-16 04:43:02-07 | 2
1 | 2001-07-16 05:31:12-07 | 3
(4 rows)
Any advice would be appreciated!
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Henry House
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