RE: How to just get the last in a recursive query

These worked for me:

These lists the results in reverse order based on the rownum and returns first row, which is actually the last row, just in reversed order.

Oracle:
select *
from (select umab.umab_directory_info.*, rownum
from umab.umab_directory_info
where pidm = 0
ORDER BY ROWNUM DESC)
WHERE ROWNUM=1;

Pgsql-sql:

select course_id from (select course_main.course_id, row_number() OVER (ORDER BY course_id)
from course_main
where course_name like '%DO NOT USE%'
ORDER BY row_number DESC limit 1) cm

You need an alias (cm), otherwise you will get an error.

Thanks,
-- Merlin

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That is not the most efficient in this case.
How to tell query to deliberately miss out all except the last one is of interest.
Regards, David

On Monday, 4 April 2022, Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com<mailto:robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
On 4/4/22 16:14, Shaozhong SHI wrote:

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From: Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong(at)gmail(dot)com<mailto:shishaozhong(at)gmail(dot)com>>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 23:13
Subject: How to just get the last in a recursive query
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In this example, Network Walking in PostGIS * Paul Ramsey (cleverelephant.ca)<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.cleverelephant.ca%2F2010%2F07%2Fnetwork-walking-in-postgis.html&data=04%7C01%7Cmtchouan%40umaryland.edu%7Cccca8e4f951e4780dde008da1691ecb0%7C3dcdbc4a7e4c407b80f77fb6757182f2%7C0%7C0%7C637847113257889566%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=xVii1WKKxTDHx5kZUH49X5tyWwbPkxanjSBoMgpDnCk%3D&reserved=0>

3 rows got returns as follows:

id

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6

3

1

How to just get the last (namely, 1) in the most efficient way?

Regards, David
reverse the order of the last query and set limit 1