Responding to myself. I think I can do it like this:

select getprice('USD', 'CHF', #'2017-10-10') limit 1


On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 6:34:54 PM UTC+1, [email protected] 
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As I'm trying to interface with beancount only through bean-query, I'm 
> wondering if I'm doing it right to retrieve a certain price at a certain 
> date.
>
> To select a single price I'm doing this:
>
> select distinct getprice('USD', 'CHF', #'2017-10-10')
>
> This works but it looks like what's happening in the back is that it does 
> the getprice call for each position and then only reduced it down to a 
> single response because of the distinct (without the distinct I'm getting 
> N-times the price.
> Is there something that I'm missing? Is there something similar to the 
> oracle "select from dual" to avoid this?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Patrick
>
>
>
>

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