Hi everybody.
I have a table like that (i simplified it):
CREATE TABLE business {
idnode integer not null,
version_no integer,
c1 text,
c2 text,
c3 text
}
With a unique index in (idnode,version_no).
This table records many version from contents identified by idnode where
texts may be different.
So i can have:
Idnode | version_no | c1 | c2 | c3
111 | 2 | foo1 | foo2 | foo3
111 | 1 | fee1 | foo2 | foo3
111 | null | fee1 | fee2 | fee3
222 | null | too1 | too2 | too3
333 | 1 | xoo1 | xoo2 | xoo3
333 | null | yoo1 | yoo2 | yee3
I want to select all columns but only for last (greatest) version of each
content. So I want a result like:
Idnode | version_no | c1 | c2 | c3
111 | 2 | foo1 | foo2 | foo3
222 | null | too1 | too2 | too3
333 | 1 | xoo1 | xoo2 | xoo3
If i do:
SELECT idnode, max(version_no) FROM business
GROUP BY idnode ORDER BY idnode;
I get effectively only last version:
Idnode | version_no
111 | 2
222 | null
333 | 1
But as soon that i want to get texts, I don't know how to build the SQL.
In each SQL i tested i've been forced to put text column in a group by since
i used aggregate for version_no:
SELECT idnode, max(version_no), c1, c2, c3 FROM BUSINESS
GROUP BY idnode, c1, c2, c3 ORDER BY idnode;
But with that SQL, because of the group by and different values in text i
get
Idnode | version_no | c1 | c2 | c3
111 | 2 | foo1 | foo2 | foo3
111 | 1 | fee1 | foo2 | foo3
111 | null | fee1 | fee2 | fee3
222 | null | too1 | too2 | too3
333 | 1 | xoo1 | xoo2 | xoo3
333 | null | yoo1 | yoo2 | yee3
As we can't do aggregate in join neither in where, i can't get what i want.
Anybody could help me to build proper SQL ?
Thx for your answers.
Sébastien.
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