Re: fetch first rows of grouped data

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:34:09 -0400
Joel Richard <postgres@joelrichard.com> wrote:
> That's what I thought at first, but this is not the case. She's  
> looking for the first two dates in -each- city in the table. I  
> initially thought that this could be accomplished with GROUP BY and  
> LIMIT, but GROUP BY can only give you the first date for each city,  
> not the first two dates for each city.

Yes, you are correct.  My mistake.

> So far, I haven't come up with any clever ideas. I'm not sure this  
> can be done in SQL.

Well, I can think of an SQL only method involving a temporary table but
it would not be a single query:
- Select into temp table where date is max.- Select from temp table union with main table where date is max and
is not in temp table.

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