Alex Magnum <magnum11200@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> i want to archive data and am looking for a query to replace a rather slow
> function i am currently using.
>
> The idea is that for every sym and doc_key I want to keep the records of the
> top 2 sources. Eg. in below table I want to archive
sounds like a case for window-functions here (maybe row_number() or
rank()), please read that for the start:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7613785/postgresql-top-n-entries-per-item-in-same-table
Regards, Andreas Kretschmer
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