Thread: Postgres Date Functions

Postgres Date Functions

From
Robert Hiltibidal
Date:
Afternoon,

Here's a thorny problem:

Given I have a field called entrydate and is set to type datetime, what is
the best way to pull the latest entry into that record basing the query off
of entrydate?

Currently I am using something like:

Select * from tblApplication order by EntryDate desc

That query pulls all the records. I wish to pull only one.

Thanks,

-Rob



Re: [INTERFACES] Postgres Date Functions

From
"Tim Joyce"
Date:
 Select * from tblApplication order by EntryDate desc LIMIT 1

should work

timj


----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Hiltibidal <rob@y2k.state.il.us>
To: <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Cc: <James_Jorgensen@cms.state.il.us>
Sent: 17 November 1999 17:18
Subject: [INTERFACES] Postgres Date Functions


> Afternoon,
>
> Here's a thorny problem:
>
> Given I have a field called entrydate and is set to type datetime, what is
> the best way to pull the latest entry into that record basing the query
off
> of entrydate?
>
> Currently I am using something like:
>
> Select * from tblApplication order by EntryDate desc
>
> That query pulls all the records. I wish to pull only one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Rob
>
>
> ************