Re: Was: fetch first rows of grouped data

Sorry my last post isnt complete.

This would have to be part of a sub select. It would be more lilke:

SELECT * from cities LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT c.id as city_id, event.id FROM
cities c LEFT OUTER JOIN events e ON (c.id = e.city_id) WHERE c.id =
cities.id ORDER BY e.date DESC LIMIT 2) as x ON (cities.id = x.city_id)

I think that would work.

Seb

On 8/28/07, Sebastian Ritter <ritter(dot)sebastian(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi There,
>
> You can do something like :
>
> SELECT * FROM cities c LEFT OUTER JOIN events e ON (c.id =e.city_id) ORDER
> BY e.date DESC LIMIT 2
>
> The left outer join here would ensure that cities with no events are also
> added to your result set.
>
> Seb
>
> On 8/28/07, Guy Fraser <guy(at)incentre(dot)net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there
> >
> > I have a list of events that take place in a certain city at a
> > certain date. Now I would like to have the first two (ordered by
> > date) events for each city.
> > Is there a way to do this with one query?
> > I am using PostgreSQL 7.4.
> >
> > Thanks for any tips.
> >
> > Claudia
> >
> >
> > I think I may have come up with a possible solution.
> >
> > Create a selection that produces a unique identifier for each city
> > ordered by date then use array_accum to collect the unique identifiers
> > for each city, then match the first two elements of the array with the
> > identifiers.
> >
> > For instance if you had a table :
> >
> > CREATE TABLE crazy_talk (
> > ct_id bigserial primary key,
> > ct_city text,
> > ct_date date,
> > ct_data text
> > ) ;
> >
> > Then you could use :
> >
> > SELECT
> > ct_id ,
> > ct_city ,
> > ct_date ,
> > ct_data
> > FROM
> > crazy_talk ,
> > (SELECT
> > ct_city AS city,
> > array_accum(ct_id) as match
> > FROM
> > crazy_talk
> > ORDER BY
> > ct_city ,
> > ct_date
> > GROUP BY
> > ct_city ) AS data_set
> > WHERE
> > ct_city = city AND
> > ct_id IN (match[0],match[1])
> > ORDER BY
> > ct_city ,
> > ct_date
> > ;
> >
> > I hope this helps, I did not try it, but I think it should work.
> >
> > PS if you don't have array_accum here it is :
> >
> > CREATE AGGREGATE array_accum (
> > BASETYPE = anyelement,
> > SFUNC = array_append,
> > STYPE = anyarray,
> > INITCOND = '{}'
> > );
> >
> >
> >
> >
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