Could you end the query with a "LIMIT 1"? SELECT h.id AS host_id, MIN(r.start_date) AS reservation_start_date, r.id AS reservation_id FROM hosts h LEFT OUTER JOIN reservation_hosts rh ON rh.host_id = h.id LEFT OUTER JOIN reservation r ON r.id = rh.reservation_id AND (r.start_date, r.end_date) OVERLAPS ('2009-04-29'::date, '2010-04-29'::date) GROUP BY h.id, r.id ORDER BY reservation_start_date ASC LIMIT 1 ; On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Marcin Krol <mrkafk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I need to retrieve PK (r.id in the query) for row with MIN(r.start_date), > but with a twist: I need to select only one record, the one with minimum > date. > > Doing it like this does not solve the problem: > > SELECT h.id AS host_id, MIN(r.start_date) AS reservation_start_date, r.id AS > reservation_id > FROM hosts h > LEFT OUTER JOIN reservation_hosts rh ON rh.host_id = h.id > LEFT OUTER JOIN reservation r ON r.id = rh.reservation_id AND (r.start_date, > r.end_date) OVERLAPS ('2009-04-29'::date, '2010-04-29'::date) > GROUP BY h.id, r.id > ORDER BY reservation_start_date ASC > > I have to use either GROUP BY r.id or use MIN(r.id). MIN(r.id) doesn't > select the id from the row with corresponding MIN(r.start_date), so it's > useless, while GROUP BY r.id produces more than one row: > > host_id reservation_start_date reservation_id > 361 2009-05-11 38 > 361 2009-05-17 21 > > I need to select only row with reservation_id = 38. > > I would rather not do subquery for every 'host' record, since there can be a > lot of them... > > Regards, > mk > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general