In response to Jay : > Thanks! > But, since the master can contain many users (user2, user3, and so on) > I suppose this won't be a proper solution? > Sorry if I was a bit unclear in my description. > > I.e., the master is of the form: > > user_id date > User1 20010101 > User1 20000101 > User1 19990101 > User1 19970101 > User2 ... > ... That's not the problem ... > > Btw, I'm using Postgre version 8.2 and I cannot use subqueries do the but this. lag() over () and similar windowing functions new since 8.4. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG: 0x31720C99, 1006 CCB4 A326 1D42 6431 2EB0 389D 1DC2 3172 0C99 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general