Is this SQL-99 compliant or a PostgreSQL specific query?  I really like it and have never seen this before.

-Aaron

On 6/1/06, Tom Lane < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Collin Peters" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I would like to do is simply get the last date_sent and it's
> status for every broadcast.  I can't do a GROUP BY because I can't put
> an aggregate on the status column.

You missed the key idea about how to use DISTINCT ON.

SELECT DISTINCT ON (email_broadcast_id) *
FROM email_broadcast_history
ORDER BY email_broadcast_id, date_sent DESC

You order by the DISTINCT ON fields, then one or more additional fields
to select the representative row you want within each DISTINCT ON group.

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