Re: Deleting obsolete values

DELETE FROM partitur WHERE EXISTS (SELECT * FROM partitur AS ss_partitur
WHERE ss_partitur.userid=partitur.userid AND ss_partitur.ts>partitur.ts);
Seems like it should seems like it should delete all old values (however I
have not tested it)
- Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Haller Christoph [SMTP:ch@rodos.fzk.de]
> Sent:    Tuesday, October 16, 2001 5:45 PM
> To:    pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Subject:    Deleting obsolete values
> 
> This may look familiar to you - it was on the list last month. 
> Consider the following table 
> create table partitur
>  (userid text, val integer, ts timestamp DEFAULT NOW() );
> Do some inserts 
> insert into partitur values('Bart', 1440);
> insert into partitur values('Lisa', 1024);
> insert into partitur values('Bart', 7616);
> insert into partitur values('Lisa', 3760);
> insert into partitur values('Bart', 3760);
> insert into partitur values('Lisa', 7616);
> To retrieve the latest values (meaning the last ones inserted) 
> Tom Lane wrote 
> >This is what SELECT DISTINCT ON was invented for.  I don't know any
> >comparably easy way to do it in standard SQL, but with DISTINCT ON
> >it's not hard:
> >SELECT DISTINCT ON (userid) userid, val, ts FROM partitur
> >ORDER BY userid, ts DESC;
> 
> My question now is 
> Is there a way to delete all rows the select statement did not 
> bring up? 
> After that *unknown* delete statement 
> select userid, val, ts from partitur ;
> should show exactly the same as the SELECT DISTINCT ON (userid) ... 
> did before. 
> 
> Regards, Christoph