Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
And there are other options to do it without using a UNION? I don't need to know from witch table comes the greatest date, but the query is complex, this query is part of an UNION. The use of the CASE WHEN could be an alternative?
Best Regards,
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Jon Nelson
<jnelson+pgsql@jamponi.net> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Andre Lopes <
lopes80andre@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to obtain the maximum value of a date, but that comparison will be
> made between 3 tables... I will explain better with a query...
>
> [code]
> select
> a.last_refresh_date as d1, ae.last_refresh_date as d2, ha.last_refresh_date
> as d3
> from tbl1 a
> join tbl2 ae on a.id_anuncio_externo = ae.id_anuncio_externo
> join tbl3 ha on a.id_anuncio_externo = ha.id_anuncio_externo
> [/code]
>
> My question is how is the best way to obtain with date is the greatest, d1,
> d2 or d3
select a.last_refresh_date as d1, NULL as d2, NULL as d3 FROM tbl1 as a
UNION ALL
...
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Jon