Re: Select subset of rows

Of course immediately after sending the last message and logging off my
ISP I figured out the simpler way for the third one:

begin;
select salary into temp saltemp from employee order by salary desc
limit 5;
select name from employee where exists (select * from saltemp where
saltemp.salary=employee.salary);
end;

Stephan Szabo
sszabo(at)bigpanda(dot)com

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Paulo Roberto Siqueira wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have this table
>
> CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE (ID_EMP INT4 PRIMARY KEY, NAME VARCHAR(35), SALARY
> NUMERIC(5,2));
>
> I want to select only the employees' names who have the 5 highest salaries.
>
>
>
>
> Paulo Siqueira
>