Re: [GENERAL] querying the value of the previous row

2010-03-11 Thread John R Pierce
Chris Velevitch wrote: I'm to write a query like:- select case when column_name1 <> value_of_previous(column_name1) then column_name1 end as column ,column_name2 from table ordered by column_name1, column_name2 in order to get:- column| column_name2 --+--

Re: [GENERAL] querying the value of the previous row

2010-03-11 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Chris Velevitch : > I'm to write a query like:- > > select > case when column_name1 <> value_of_previous(column_name1) >   then column_name1 end as column >     ,column_name2 > from table > ordered by column_name1, column_name2 Okay, with this table: test=# select * f

[GENERAL] querying the value of the previous row

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Velevitch
I'm to write a query like:- select case when column_name1 <> value_of_previous(column_name1) then column_name1 end as column ,column_name2 from table ordered by column_name1, column_name2 in order to get:- column| column_name2 --+-- value_1_c1