Hi, Merlin, On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:13:25 +0200, I myself wrote:
> You mut not Should be "must", not "mut" :-) > > My problem is deceptively simple: how you read the next record from > > a table based on a given set of values? In practice, this is > > difficult to implement. If anybody can suggest a alternative/better > > way to this, I'm all ears. > > So you really want something like > > 'SELECT * FROM t WHERE a>=a1 AND b>=b1 AND c>=c1 ORDER BY a,b,c ASC > LIMIT 1' Sorry, as you want the _next_, and I assume that a1, b1 and c1 are the current row's values, you should rather use something like: 'SELECT * FROM t WHERE a>=a1 AND b>=b1 AND c>=c1 ORDER BY a,b,c ASC LIMIT 1 OFFSET 1' HTH, Markus -- markus schaber | dipl. informatiker logi-track ag | rennweg 14-16 | ch 8001 zürich phone +41-43-888 62 52 | fax +41-43-888 62 53 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.logi-track.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
