Re: select best price

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 16:38:48 +0100,
Gary Stainburn <gary(dot)stainburn(at)ringways(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 4:21 pm, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Hi folks
> >
> > I've got a table holding item code(cs_id), supplier a/c (co_id) , and
> > price (cs_price).
> >
> > How can I select the rows containing the lowest price for each item
> > code?
> >
> > I've tried various forms of min() etc and know it must be simple but
> > I'm stumped.
> >
> > Gary
>
> I've come up with the select below. Is there a better/more efficient
> way of doing this?
>
> select cp.cs_id, from cons_price_details cp,
> (select cs_id, min(cs_price) as cs_price
> from cons_price_details
> group by cs_id
> ) v
> where cp.cs_id = v.cs_id and cp.cs_price = v.cs_price;

If you only need one lowest price entry where there are ties, you could also
use DISTINCT ON (a nonstandard Postgres extension) and ORDER BY that may
execute faster.