You mean
to list the complete orders table and for each of its records, the corresponding record on the orders_log with the latest ol_timestamp?


SELECT *
FROM orders_log main
JOIN
(
SELECT orders.*,  MAX(orders_log.ol_timestamp) as latest
FROM orders
NATURAL JOIN orders_log
GROUP BY orders.*
) subquery
ON main.ol_timestamp = subquery.latest
AND main.o_id = subquery.o_id

This query is untested, but could you give it a try?

Then tell me the results.

NB - I am not sure if it is legal to use * on a GROUP BY clause, but if it isnt please kindly substitute by orders.o_id, orders.next_field, etc...

Best,
Oliveiros


----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Stainburn" <gary.stainb...@ringways.co.uk>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:16 PM
Subject: [SQL] simple (?) join


Hi folks.

I have two tables

create table orders (
o_id serial primary key
...
);

create table orders_log (
ol_id serial primary key,
o_id int4 not null references orders(o_id),
ol_timestamp timestamp,
ol_user,
);

How can I select all from orders and the last (latest) entry from the
orders_log?

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