Re: newbie question for return date

Hey a suggestion, what if PG would support the negative limit as in
select * from table limit -1 to mean limit it from the other end of
list.....

Sort of like some languages where they support

array[1] vs array[-1].

I'm not sure, but it looks like order by will sort the list which is
expensive and then
allow us to get the first chunk specified by limit.

Lee Harr wrote:

>In article <xEgv9(dot)2668$h_4(dot)374526(at)news20(dot)bellglobal(dot)com>, tviardot wrote:
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>>Hi guys, here a newbies question.
>>I've made a table with some action and date.
>>How may i query the most recent date. (I'd like to return only the record
>>which have the most recent date ).
>>Tx
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>How about:
>
>SELECT * FROM t ORDER BY d DESC LIMIT 1;
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