Re: [SQL] Window function sort order help

2011-09-14 Thread Nicoletta Maia
2011/9/13 Dianna Harter : Hi, > [snip] > Any suggestions to get the order by to occur first then the partition by or > maybe there another approach that I could use? I tried to write the query without using the window: SELECT `X`.`consumer_id`, `X`.`move_date` , `X`.`history_timestamp` ,

Re: [SQL] Window function sort order help

2011-09-14 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Nicoletta Maia, 14.09.2011 10:30: SELECT `X`.`consumer_id`, `X`.`move_date` , `X`.`history_timestamp` , MIN( `Y`.`history_timestamp` ) AS `start_time` FROM `Table` AS `X` JOIN `Table` AS `Y` ON `X`.`consumer_id` = `Y`.`consumer_id`

Re: [SQL] Window function sort order help

2011-09-14 Thread Dianna Harter
Thank you. Interesting solution. Unfortunately, it's performance is not very good, since it involves joining a large table 3 times. I do have a solution that uses a temp table, but I was trying to rework it into a single query to improve performance. Thank you again for your help. Dianna

Re: [SQL] Window function sort order help

2011-09-14 Thread Nicoletta Maia
2011/9/14 Dianna Harter : > [snip] > Thank you again for your help. You're welcome. Sorry about the syntax, but I could only try on MySQL... and I was curious about the problem :) Nicoletta -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http: