On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 20:44:30 -0500, "John D. Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That changes the semantics of what I want. If I group by personID > above, then every FOUR-way combo is of course unique. What I'd like to > do is group by the three attributes, and select for personID as well. > But of course you can't select for columns you haven't grouped by.
Assuming that personID is an ordered type, you can select max(personID) in the GROUP BY and save the join at the end. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly