How about: select max(transaction_id) from bank_account group by customer_id
Should work... Detlef -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Erik G. Burrows Gesendet: Montag, 2. Juni 2003 07:30 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [SQL] SQL problem: bank account It seems to me this is a simple problem, but the solution eludes me. I have a table: bank_account ( transaction_id int not null serial, customer_id int not null references customer(id), ts timestamp not null default now(), amount float not null, balance float not null, primary key(transaction_id) ) I need to get the most recent transaction for each customer. I need only the transaction ID, but the entire row would be best. I have two solutions, both of which are too slow for use in my interactive web-based interface: Solution1: Outer left self join: SELECT ba1.* FROM bank_account ba1 LEFT OUTER JOIN bank_account ba2 ON ba1.customer_id = ba2.customer_id AND ba1.ts < ba2.ts WHERE ba2.ts IS NULL; This query works great on tables of less than a few thousand rows. For my 300k row table, it takes several hours. Solution2: max-concat trick SELECT split_part(max( extract(EPOCH from ts)::VARCHAR || ' ' || transaction_id::VARCHAR), ' ', 2)::INT FROM bank_account GROUP BY customer_id This is an ugly and obviously inefficient solution, but it does the job in about 1/2 hour. Still too long though. I've been working on this problem for days, and consulting friends. No elegant, fast solution is presenting itself. As I said, I feel I'm not seeing the obvious solution in front of my face. In the mean-time I can use this query to do the job on a per-customer basis: select * from bank_account where id = <the customer's ID> and ts = (select max(ts) from bank_account ba2 where ba2.customer_id = bank_account.customer_id); However, doing this for all 40,000 customers is not workable as a manual process. My last resort is to do it this way to pre-generate the report, but I'd far rather do it real-time. Help! My brain hurts! -- Erik G. Burrows - KG6HEA www.erikburrows.com PGP Key: http://www.erikburrows.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: 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
