On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:40:48PM +0200, FC wrote:
>
> Hello SQL Aces !
>
> I want to do a select on a table distinct on linkid and sorted by
> date. I have try this
How about a subquery?:
SELECT * FROM
( SELECT DISTINCT ON (linkid) * FROM all_links
WHERE uid='2' AND DATE_TRUNC('day',read_date) = DATE_TRUNC('day',
TIMESTAMP '2005-06-01') ORDER BY linkid, read_date) AS sub
ORDER BY read_date DESC limit 100;
Hope this helps,
> My question is... How can I do the same thing in the more efficient
> way and without using a temporary table. Since I am using PHP and the
> table is not deleted at the end of the program because PHP keeps the
> connection to the database open.
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