Re: Delete Question

From: Alex <alex(at)meerkatsoft(dot)com>
To: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Delete Question
Date: 2005-12-07 07:52:07
Message-ID: 439694A7.6020401@meerkatsoft.com
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Thanks ,
this one works beautifully.

Alex

PS: also thanks to the other suggestions, have a look at this one

hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:

> On 12/7/05, *Alex* <alex(at)meerkatsoft(dot)com
> <mailto:alex(at)meerkatsoft(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> I have a table where I store changes made to an order. The looks like
> ProdID, ChangeDate, Change1, Change2, ... etc.
> Some ProdIDs have multiple records.
> Is there an easy way to delete all records of a ProdID except the
> most
> recent (ChangeDate is timestamp) one? Preferably in one SQL statement?
>
>
> delete from table_name where exists (select * from table_name x where
> x.prodid = table_name.prodid and x.changedate > table_name.changedate);
>
> this should work.
>
> depesz

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