Re: get first and last row in one sql as two columns

[Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx>]

Try this:

SELECT
  (SELECT <your_column>
     FROM <your_table>
     ORDER BY <your_column> offset 0 LIMIT 1) ,
  (SELECT <your_column>
     FROM <your_table>
     ORDER BY <your_column> OFFSET (SELECT COUNT(*) ) LIMIT 1)
   FROM <your_table> LIMIT 1;

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Rob Sargent <robjsargent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 09/02/2015 05:14 PM, Tom Smith wrote:

Hi:

I need to get the first and last tow in one sql like below

select first(col1), last(col1) from table order by col1

I saw some posting in wiki with a custom function (or C extention)

to do this.   Is it widely used and reliable?
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/First/last_(aggregate)

I am wondering why these two functions are not part of postgresql built-in

functions as it has many use cases

Thanks

If you're ordering by col1, does

select min(col1), max(col1) from table order by col1

not do the trick;

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