Re: dumb question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: dumb question
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In response to Re: dumb question  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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On 6/2/2016 11:10 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
Thanks all the below seem to do the trick.

On 06/02/2016 01:58 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
select max(id) from yourtable where sts=0 and id not in (select ref_id from yourtable);

select max(id) from yourtable where sts=0 and id not in (select ref_id from yourtable);


do note, this is whats known as an 'anti-join', and these can be pretty expensive on large tables.  



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