On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:15:21PM -0700, Ben wrote:
> Oracle has a very handy function called first_value, which can be used 
> to turn a set like this:

Look at DISTINCT ON ()

> Does postgres have something equivalent, or, even better, is there a 
> reasonable way to express this in standard SQL?

In standard SQL, not really, which is why it's an extention...
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