Lindsay schrieb:
> Lets say i do this:
>
> SELECT name, MAX(age)
> FROM Person
> GROUP BY name
>
> This will group people who have the same name together, and return the
> highest age for each group. I want to be able to find the id for the
> person with the highest age in each group -
>
> Idea
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 08:46 -0400, Lindsay wrote:
> SELECT name, MAX(age), id_for_row_with_max_age
> FROM Person
> GROUP BY name
how about:
select distinct on (name) name, age, id
from person
order by name, age desc;
gnari
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Lets say i do this:
SELECT name, MAX(age)
FROM Person
GROUP BY name
This will group people who have the same name together, and return the
highest age for each group. I want to be able to find the id for the
person with the highest age in each group -
Ideally, it would be something like this
