> > > > 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 preview for Madi: > > SELECT foo,bar > FROM (SELECT foo,bar, > ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY foo ORDER BY bar) AS pos > FROM table > ) AS t > WHERE pos = 1 > ORDER BY bar; > > Probably easier to understand what's going on in this one. > > David. > Is Oracle's FIRST_VALUE function not a SQL standard? The way I would do this in Oracle looks like: SELECT foo, FIRST_VALUE(bar) OVER (PARTITION BY foo ORDER BY bar) as bar FROM table http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/functions059. htm -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
