Re: retrieving primary key for row with MIN function

He said he'd rather not do a subquery because of performance. Though,
it may actually be faster than the aggregate.

On 30/04/2009, at 12:28 PM, Sean Davis wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Adam Ruth <adamruth(at)mac(dot)com> wrote:
> Without windowing functions, I'm not sure of a built in method. But
> you could create your own aggregate.
>
> Seems like you should be able to do this with a correlated subquery
> that does an order and limit 1 and not have to use a custom aggregate?
>
> Sean
>
>
> ------------------------
> create type top_id_type as (id int, date timestamp);
>
> create or replace function top_id_state ( state top_id_type, id int,
> date timestamp) returns top_id_type as $$
> declare
> result top_id_type;
> begin
> if state is null or date < state.date then
> result.id = id;
> result.date = date;
> else
> result = state;
> end if;
> return result;
> end
> $$ language plpgsql;
>
> create or replace function top_id_final (state top_id_type) returns
> int as $$
> begin
> return state.id;
> end
> $$ language plpgsql;
>
> create aggregate top_id (int, timestamp) (
> sfunc = top_id_state,
> stype = top_id_type,
> finalfunc = top_id_final
> );
>
> -----------------------
>
> This is my first ever user defined aggregate, so someone may be able
> to improve it.
>
> ------------------------- Usage
>
> SELECT h.id AS host_id, MIN(r.start_date) AS reservation_start_date,
> top_id(r.id, r.start_date) AS reservation_id
>
> FROM hosts h
> LEFT OUTER JOIN reservation_hosts rh ON rh.host_id = h.id
> LEFT OUTER JOIN reservation r ON r.id = rh.reservation_id AND
> (r.start_date, r.end_date) OVERLAPS ('2009-04-29'::date,
> '2010-04-29'::date)
> GROUP BY h.id
> ORDER BY reservation_start_date ASC
>
> -------------------------
>
> On 29/04/2009, at 10:37 PM, Marcin Krol wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I need to retrieve PK (r.id in the query) for row with
>>
>> MIN(r.start_date), but with a twist: I need to select only one
>> record,
>> the one with minimum date.
>>
>> Doing it like this does not solve the problem:
>>
>> SELECT h.id AS host_id, MIN(r.start_date) AS reservation_start_date,
>> r.id AS reservation_id
>> FROM hosts h
>> LEFT OUTER JOIN reservation_hosts rh ON rh.host_id = h.id
>> LEFT OUTER JOIN reservation r ON r.id = rh.reservation_id AND
>> (r.start_date, r.end_date) OVERLAPS ('2009-04-29'::date,
>> '2010-04-29'::date)
>> GROUP BY h.id, r.id
>> ORDER BY reservation_start_date ASC
>>
>> I have to use either GROUP BY r.id or use MIN(r.id). MIN(r.id)
>> doesn't
>> select the id from the row with corresponding MIN(r.start_date), so
>> it's
>> useless, while GROUP BY r.id produces more than one row:
>>
>> host_id reservation_start_date reservation_id
>> 361 2009-05-11 38
>> 361 2009-05-17 21
>>
>> I need to select only row with reservation_id = 38.
>>
>> I would rather not do subquery for every 'host' record, since there
>> can
>> be a lot of them...
>>
>> Regards,
>> mk
>>
>>
>>
>>
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