Re: Select first ten of each category?

From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>
To: Yanni Chiu <yanni(at)rogers(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Select first ten of each category?
Date: 2006-04-13 02:16:59
Message-ID: F2527281-8EEB-4DD5-8BEC-E5B217549CF2@myrealbox.com
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On Apr 13, 2006, at 11:08 , Yanni Chiu wrote:

> Benjamin Smith wrote:
>> It has a LARGE number of entries. I'd like to grab the 10 most
>> expensive items from each category in a single query. How can this
>> be done?
>
> Use a LIMIT on your SELECT. See:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/queries-limit.html

Without using UNION, (which would require writing a select statement
for each category), how would LIMIT allow him to do this for each
category in a single query?

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com

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