Hi Scara, This should work just fine: select num, min(mydate) from mytab group by num order by num desc limit 1; If you have an index on 'num' it will also be fast. Cheers, Csaba. On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 08:47 -0600, Scara Maccai wrote: > Hi all, > > suppose I have a table like: > > CREATE TABLE mytab > ( > num integer, > mydate timestamp > ); > > and I want to find MAX(num) and the "mydate" where it first happened. > > I guess I could use > > select * from mytab where num = (select MAX(num) from mytab) order by > mydate limit 1; > > but that would scan the data twice (I guess...) > > Do I have to write my own MAX function, something like: > > select MYMAX(num, timestamp) from mytab > > which would return a custom type? > Or is there a better way? > > > > > > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
