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From negora
Subject Re: Get more columns from a lookup type subselect
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Msg-id 906d7125-2de3-bcb9-6a64-c0f58d8a0017@negora.com
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In response to Get more columns from a lookup type subselect  (Durumdara <durumdara@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Get more columns from a lookup type subselect  (Durumdara <durumdara@gmail.com>)
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Hi Chris:

You can use a subselect in the `from` and `join` clauses. That's how I get multiple columns from a single subselect.

If the subselect needs to use a reference from the outer scope (i.e. the main query) , you can use the `lateral` modifier.

Best regards.


On 10/03/2023 08:34, Durumdara wrote:
Dear Members!

I use the subselects many times in my Queries to get some info (Name, etc) from a subtable.

Sometimes I have to use it to get the last element.

select t.*,
   (
select value from u join ... where ...
order by id desc limit 1
   ) as last_value,

It is ok, but how can I get more values from subselect without repeating the subquery?

select t.*,
   (
select value from u join ... where ...
order by date desc limit 1
   ) as last_value,
   (
select type from u join ... where ...
order by date desc limit 1
   ) as last_type,

This is not too comfortable, and may make mistakes if the join is not defined properly or the date has duplicates.

Ok, I can use WITH Query:

with 
  pre as ( select * from t .... )
  ,sub as (select pre.*, (select u.id from u where ... limit 1) as last_u_id
select  sub.*, u.value, u.type, u.nnn from sub
left join u on (u.id = sub.last_u_id)

But sometimes it makes the Query very long (because I have to read more subselects).

Do you know a simple method for this, like:

select t.*,
   (
select value, type, anyfield from u join ... where ...
order by date desc limit 1
   ) as last_value, last_type, anyfield

?

Thank you for the help!

Best regards
Chris

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