Re: [SQL] Can EXCEPT Be Used for To Solve This Problem?

2005-08-25 Thread Vivek Khera
On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Lane Van Ingen wrote: I want to select 2nd oldest transaction from foo (transaction 3). The solution below works, but I think there may be a better way. Does anyone else have a better idea? why not just select order by update_time desc limit 2 then discard

Re: [SQL] Can EXCEPT Be Used for To Solve This Problem?

2005-08-25 Thread Mark R. Dingee
you can also do select ... order by update_time desc offset 1 limit 1 On Thursday 25 August 2005 10:47 am, Vivek Khera wrote: On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Lane Van Ingen wrote: I want to select 2nd oldest transaction from foo (transaction 3). The solution below works, but I think there

[SQL] Can EXCEPT Be Used for To Solve This Problem?

2005-08-24 Thread Lane Van Ingen
Given the following data in a table named 'foo' : id update_time description 22005-08-24 00:10:00 transaction1 22005-08-24 00:22:00 transaction2 22005-08-24 00:34:00 transaction3 22005-08-24 00:58:00 transaction4 I want to select 2nd

Re: [SQL] Can EXCEPT Be Used for To Solve This Problem?

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:47:16PM -0400, Lane Van Ingen wrote: Given the following data in a table named 'foo' : id update_time description 22005-08-24 00:10:00 transaction1 22005-08-24 00:22:00 transaction2 22005-08-24 00:34:00 transaction3

Re: [SQL] Can EXCEPT Be Used for To Solve This Problem?

2005-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
Lane Van Ingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to select 2nd oldest transaction from foo (transaction 3). Can't you just do select * from foo order by update_time desc offset 1 limit 1 regards, tom lane ---(end of

Re: [SQL] Can EXCEPT Be Used for To Solve This Problem?

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:34:49PM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:47:16PM -0400, Lane Van Ingen wrote: Given the following data in a table named 'foo' : id update_time description 22005-08-24 00:10:00 transaction1 22005-08-24