Re: last entry per person - Mailing list pgsql-general

From garry
Subject Re: last entry per person
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Msg-id 4F2B9FF5.4030400@scholarpack.com
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In response to Re: last entry per person  (Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 03/02/2012 08:30, Chris Travers wrote:


On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:26 AM, garry <garry@scholarpack.com> wrote:
I have a table which holds a user name and their results in exams. There can be multiple entries per user. I am trying to return the last entry for each user. I can get the last entry in the table using the order by/limit method but how would this be applied per user. My table definition is like the following:

gradeid serial primary key,
user text,
grade char(1),
entered timestamp,
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards

What about a combination of a common table expression and a windowing function?  You ought to be able to order by your criteria and then pull where the rowcount in the window is 1.


Unfortunately I am using a version of postgres without the windowing functions, but that would have done the job.
Regards
Garry
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