Re: [GENERAL] the last row in a table

How about...

select field1 where primary_key = select max(primary_key) from table;

or something like that :)  I always mess up the parenthesis...cant remember
whether or not they are needed here around the second select.

-----Original Message-----
From: hoelc <hoelc@pd.jaring.my>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-admin@postgreSQL.org>;
pgsql-general@hub.org <pgsql-general@hub.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 7:03 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] the last row in a table


>Hello,
>I am developing a database with PostgreSQL in Linux, and using ecpg to
write the
>C program to communicate with the database.
>One of my application need to get the data from the last row in a table.
>Is there any function or command that can tract which is the last row of
data in
>a table?
>Thank you.
>Regards,
>lch
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