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Responses Re: How to delete rows number 2,3,4...  (Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>)
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Hello.

I have a table

create table foo (
a serial,
b int,
c int,
.... more fields ...);

and now I wish to remove for each combination of b and c,  all the
rows except the one with the highest value of a.

For example
a  b  c  other fields
=====
1  5  5 .....
2  5  5 ....
3  2  3  ....
4  2  2  ...
5  5  5  ...

should leave

a  b  c  other fields
=====
3  2  3  ....
4  2  2  ...
5  5  5  ...

is there some clever command for this or will I have to write a
special function that loops through all values of  b and c ?

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