From: | Marcin Krol <mrkafk(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | retrieving primary key for row with MIN function |
Date: | 2009-04-29 12:30:14 |
Message-ID: | 49F84856.5010400@gmail.com |
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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
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