Re: Retrieve most recent 1 record from joined table

<div dir="ltr">Try to use a "GROUP BY " clause in your select, coupled with an aggregate function (MAX in your case ?).
Notethat you should not need any subquery, so a single select with inner join should be OK.<br /></div><div
class="gmail_extra"><br/><br /><div class="gmail_quote">2014-08-22 10:05 GMT+02:00 agharta <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:agharta82@gmail.com"target="_blank">agharta82@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br /><blockquote
class="gmail_quote"style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi all,<br /> This is my
firstquestion, don't hate me please if it is the wrong place.<br /><br /> Mi question is relative seimple, but goes me
crazy.<br/><br /> First, create some example tables:<br /><br /> ----<br /> create table table1(<br />     t1_ID SERIAL
primarykey,<br />     t1_value text<br /> );<br /><br /> create table table2(<br />     t2_ID SERIAL primary key,<br />
   t2_value text,<br />     t1_id integer<br /> );<br /><br /><br /> create table table3(<br />     t3_ID SERIAL
primarykey,<br />     t3_value text,<br />     t3_date timestamp,<br />     t2_id integer<br /> );<br /><br /> ALTER
TABLEtable2 ADD FOREIGN KEY (t1_id) REFERENCES table1 (t1_ID) ON DELETE CASCADE;<br /> ALTER TABLE table3 ADD FOREIGN
KEY(t2_id) REFERENCES table2 (t2_ID) ON DELETE CASCADE;<br /><br /> CREATE INDEX IDX_TABLE1_T1_value ON table1
(t1_value);<br/> CREATE INDEX IDX_TABLE2_T2_value ON table2 (t2_value);<br /> CREATE INDEX IDX_TABLE3_T3_value ON
table3(t3_value);<br /> CREATE INDEX IDX_TABLE3_T3_DATE ON table3 (t3_date);<br /> -----<br /><br /> As you can see,
table3is referenced to table2 and table2 is referenced to table1<br /><br /> Next, insert some data on tables:<br /><br
/>--one millon records into table1<br /> insert into table1(t1_value) select md5(random()::text) from (select
generate_series(1,1000000)as a) as c;<br /><br /> --100.000 records on table2 where t1_id is a random number between 1
and10.001. This guarantees many records pointing to same table1 t1_id<br /> insert into table2(t2_value, t1_id) select
md5(random()::text),trunc((random()+1)*10000)::<u></u>integer from (select generate_series(1,100000) as a) as c;<br
/><br/> --again, 1.022.401 records on table3 where t2_id is a random number between 1 and 10.001. This guarantee many
recordspointing to same table2 t2_id.<br /> -- random numbers (1.022.401) are generated by generated_series function
withtimestamp (1 minute) interval<br /> insert into table3(t3_value, t2_id, t3_date) select md5(random()::text),
trunc((random()+1)*10000)::<u></u>integer,c.date_val from (select generate_series(timestamp '2013-01-01',timestamp
'2014-12-12',interval '1 minute') as date_val) as c;<br /><br /><br /> So, now we should have table3 with many rows per
table2(t2_id)and many rows in table2 with same t1_id.<br /><br /><br /> Now, the question:<br /><br /><br /> Joining
thetables, how to get ONLY most recent record per table3(t3_date)??<br /><br /> Query example:<br /><br /> select *
fromtable1 as t1<br /> inner join table2 t2 on (t1.t1_id = t2.t1_id and t2.t2_value like('%ab%') )<br /> inner join
table3t3 on (t2.t2_id = t3.t2_id and t3.t3_date <= timestamp '2014-08-20')<br /> order by t3.t2_id, t3.t3_date
desc<br/><br /> produces to me this dataset (extract)<br /><br /><br /> t1_id       t1_value      t2_id      t2_value 
        t1_id      t3_id         t3_value                             t3_date                            t2_id<br />
17098   74127bc80ca759678892c957b6a34f<u></u>c7    10020 9182c1f48cd008e31d781abc45723a<u></u>10    17098    857683
0fb6cb380522dd83b6ac4beba2c6e9<u></u>8f   2014-08-19 14:42:00.0    10020<br /> 17098   
74127bc80ca759678892c957b6a34f<u></u>c7   10020 9182c1f48cd008e31d781abc45723a<u></u>10    17098    857088
9c3481bfc0bdea51e62b338a1777cd<u></u>e6   2014-08-19 04:47:00.0    10020<br /> 17098   
74127bc80ca759678892c957b6a34f<u></u>c7   10020 9182c1f48cd008e31d781abc45723a<u></u>10    17098    853208
253dc2083e70dd9e276867f4388997<u></u>3f   2014-08-16 12:07:00.0    10020<br /> 17098   
74127bc80ca759678892c957b6a34f<u></u>c7   10020 9182c1f48cd008e31d781abc45723a<u></u>10    17098    851237
970acf901c4232c178b5dbeda4e44a<u></u>c8   2014-08-15 03:16:00.0    10020<br /> 17098   
74127bc80ca759678892c957b6a34f<u></u>c7   10020 9182c1f48cd008e31d781abc45723a<u></u>10    17098    847436
cb8d52255eaa850f9d7f203092a2ce<u></u>13   2014-08-12 11:55:00.0    10020<br /> 17098   
74127bc80ca759678892c957b6a34f<u></u>c7   10020 9182c1f48cd008e31d781abc45723a<u></u>10    17098    819339
d9e36ad622b1db499b3f623cdd46a8<u></u>11   2014-07-23 23:38:00.0    10020<br /> 17098   
74127bc80ca759678892c957b6a34f<u></u>c7   10020 9182c1f48cd008e31d781abc45723a<u></u>10    17098    818022
b9d13239f522e3a22f20d36ea6dab8<u></u>ad   2014-07-23 01:41:00.0    10020<br /> 17098   
74127bc80ca759678892c957b6a34f<u></u>c7   10020 9182c1f48cd008e31d781abc45723a<u></u>10    17098    803046
c36164f3077894a1986c4922dfb632<u></u>ec   2014-07-12 16:05:00.0    10020<br /> 17098   
74127bc80ca759678892c957b6a34f<u></u>c7   10020 9182c1f48cd008e31d781abc45723a<u></u>10    17098    788129
32c966feab2212a29f86bebbaa6dfe<u></u>c9   2014-07-02 07:28:00.0    10020<br /><br /><br /> As you can see, there are
manyt3_id  per single t2_id.<br /><br /> I need the same dataset, but i want only the most recent (one) record per
table3,and, of course, directly in the join rule (in production i have a long and complex query).<br /><br /> My
personalsolution (very slow, i can't use it):<br /><br /> select * from table1 as t1<br /> inner join table2 t2 on
(t1.t1_id= t2.t1_id and t2.t2_value like('%ab%') )<br /> inner join table3 t3 on (<br /> t3.t3_id = (select t3_id from
table3where t2_id = t2.t2_id and t3_date <= timestamp '2014-08-20' order by t3_date desc fetch first 1 rows only)<br
/>and t3.t2_id = t2.t2_id<br /> )<br /> order by t3.t2_id, t3.t3_date desc<br /><br /><br /> it gives me the right
result,but performances are poor........<br /><br /> Same bad performance result with a function that performs the
table3query.<br /><br /> Suggestions?<br /><br /> Thanks to anyone who can answer to me!!!!<br /><br /> Best
regards,<br/><br /> Agharta<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br
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