Try
select * from the_place order by the_time desc limit 2;
-----Original Message-----From: Chris Bitmead [SMTP:chris.bitmead@bigfoot.com]Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 8:45
AMTo: pgsql-sql@postgresql.orgSubject: Re: [SQL] Finding the "most recent" rows
TrySELECT the_place, max(the_time) FROM the_place GROUP BY the_place;
Julian Scarfe wrote:> > I have a table (representing a set of observations) with datetime
fields and a> non-unique place field.> > e.g.> create table obs (> the_time datetime,> the_place char(8),> ...other
fields...>)> > I'd like an efficient way to pull out the most recent row (i.e.
highest> datatime) belonging to *each* of a number of places selected by a
simple> query.> > e.g. given a table such as:> > the_time the_place ...> 0910 London> 1130 London>
0910 Paris> 0930 London> 0840 Paris> 1020 London> 0740 Paris> > I'd like to select:>
1130 London> 0910 Paris> > Most of my attempts at this (as an SQL novice) feel very clumsy
and> inefficient. Is there an efficient way of doing this in SQL?> --> > Julian Scarfe
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