Re: Most recent row

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:25:04AM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> This question has been asked a few times, and Google returns a few different
> answers, but I am interested people's opinions and suggestions for the *best*
> wat to retrieve the most recent row from a table.
>
> My case is:
>
> create table people (
> p_id serial primary key,
> ......
> );
>
> create table assessments (
> p_id int4 not null references people(p_id),
> as_timestamp timestamp not null,
> ......
> );
>
> select p.*, (most recent) a.*
> from people p, assessments a
> ..
> ;

How many rows are in people? How many in assessments? Do you really want
data on all people? Or just some?

Best regards,

depesz