Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-09 Thread Madison Kelly
Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: or even, when you change bar to proper type - that is, timestamp SELECT distinct foo, min(bar) as minbar, max(bar) as maxbar FROM table WHERE bar < '2008-12-07 16:32:46' AND tbl_id=153 OR

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-09 Thread Madison Kelly
Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Madison Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I've got a table that I am trying to SELECT DISTINCT on one column and ORDER BY on a second column, but am getting the error: SELECT DISTINCT ON expressions must match initial ORDER BY

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-09 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > or even, when you change bar to proper type - that is, timestamp > > SELECT distinct foo, min(bar) as minbar, max(bar) as maxbar FROM > table WHERE bar < '2008-12-07 > 16:32:46' AND tbl_id=153 ORDER BY bar LIMIT 1;

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-09 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Madison Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a table that I am trying to SELECT DISTINCT on one column and > ORDER BY on a second column, but am getting the error: > > SELECT DISTINCT ON expressions must match initial ORDER BY expressions try SE

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-09 Thread David Rowley
Adam Rich Wrote: > > > > > > When we get windowing functions, a lot of this pain will go away :) > > > > > > > Yes! Hope it won't be too long now. The patch seems to behave like it > > should > > now :) > > Hopefully we'll see it commited for 8.4. > > > > Though this does not look too much cleaner

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-08 Thread Adam Rich
> > > > When we get windowing functions, a lot of this pain will go away :) > > > > Yes! Hope it won't be too long now. The patch seems to behave like it > should > now :) > Hopefully we'll see it commited for 8.4. > > Though this does not look too much cleaner at least it's standard SQL: > > A

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-08 Thread David Rowley
>>> Sent: 08 December 2008 22:19 > >>> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > >>> Subject: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem > >>> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>>I've got a table that I am trying to SELECT D

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-08 Thread David Rowley
> -Original Message- > From: David Fetter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 December 2008 00:55 > To: David Rowley > Cc: 'Madison Kelly'; pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem > > On Mon, Dec 0

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-08 Thread Madison Kelly
DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem Hi all, I've got a table that I am trying to SELECT DISTINCT on one column and ORDER BY on a second column, but am getting the error: SELECT DISTINCT ON expressions must match initial ORDER BY expressions I can't add the second column to the DISTINCT clau

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-08 Thread David Fetter
> > Subject: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem > > > > Hi all, > > > >I've got a table that I am trying to SELECT DISTINCT on one column > > and ORDER BY on a second column, but am getting the error: > > > > SELECT DISTINCT ON exp

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-08 Thread Madison Kelly
David Rowley wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Madison Kelly Sent: 08 December 2008 22:19 To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem Hi all, I've got a table that

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-08 Thread David Rowley
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Madison Kelly > Sent: 08 December 2008 22:19 > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: [GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem > > Hi all, > >

[GENERAL] SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY problem

2008-12-08 Thread Madison Kelly
Hi all, I've got a table that I am trying to SELECT DISTINCT on one column and ORDER BY on a second column, but am getting the error: SELECT DISTINCT ON expressions must match initial ORDER BY expressions I can't add the second column to the DISTINCT clause because every row is unique. L