Group by and lmit - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bill Reynolds
Subject Group by and lmit
Date
Msg-id 7C0800F63CCF4149AC0FC5EE2A04122607BA95AF@sr002-2k3exc.ateb.com
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In response to Re: Replication  ("Jonathan Tripathy" <jonnyt@abpni.co.uk>)
Responses Re: Group by and lmit  (Filip Rembiałkowski <filip.rembialkowski@gmail.com>)
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Hey Folks – have a coded myself into a corner yet?

 

I have a situation with a select count / group by / order by query that I need to limit each group to 500 entries.   Not seeing a way to do this in a single query, do I need to use multiple queries?

Group x has about 200 entries in it; group y has about 5-8k per x.

 

select x, y, count(*) as counter from mytable

 group by x, y

 order by x, counter, y

 

 

   I only want the first 500 for each x.

 

   Any tips or tricks someone might know would be appreciated.

 

   I’m using postgres 8.3.7.

 

   Thanks, Bill

 

 

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