using max() aggregate - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Louis-David Mitterrand
Subject using max() aggregate
Date
Msg-id 20000616075253.B1105@styx
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Hello,

I am trying to return the most recently updated record from a table:

SELECT max(stopdate) FROM auction;

and this works but only returns the timestamp, however if I try to get
another column with the aggregate it fails:

SELECT title,max(stopdate) FROM auction;
ERROR:  Attribute auction.title must be GROUPed or used in an aggregate function

Ok, so I group it now:

SELECT title,max(stopdate) FROM auction GROUP BY title;    title     |          max           
---------------+------------------------dfsdfsdf      | 2000-07-10 05:00:00+02dssdfsdfsdfsf | 2000-07-09
16:00:00+02sdfsdfsdfsdf | 2001-04-10 15:00:00+02
 
(3 rows)

But the problem is that I now get three rows when I only want the max()
item.

How should I do it?

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Louis-David Mitterrand - ldm@apartia.org - http://www.apartia.fr

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