From: | Benjamin Smith <lists(at)benjamindsmith(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Select first ten of each category? |
Date: | 2006-04-13 01:16:09 |
Message-ID: | 200604121816.09941.lists@benjamindsmith.com |
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I'm stumped on this one...
I have a table defined thusly:
create table items (
id serial,
category integer not null references category(id),
name varchar not null,
price real,
unique(category, name));
It has a LARGE number of entries. I'd like to grab the 10 most expensive items
from each category in a single query. How can this be done? Something like
Select items.*
FROM items
where id IN (
select firstTen(id) FROM items
group by category
ORDER BY price DESC
)
ORDER BY price desc;
But I've not found any incantation to make this idea work...
-Ben
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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
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