On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:34:09 -0400 Joel Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's what I thought at first, but this is not the case. She's > looking for the first two dates in -each- city in the table. I > initially thought that this could be accomplished with GROUP BY and > LIMIT, but GROUP BY can only give you the first date for each city, > not the first two dates for each city.
Yes, you are correct. My mistake. > So far, I haven't come up with any clever ideas. I'm not sure this > can be done in SQL. Well, I can think of an SQL only method involving a temporary table but it would not be a single query: - Select into temp table where date is max. - Select from temp table union with main table where date is max and is not in temp table. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
