Re: Getting 'n-1'th record.

Hi,
It is a not a clean job but how about having a view like this :

create view foo_view as select * from yourtable order by oid desc limit 2 ;

and then making your select like this:
select * from foo_view order by oid limit 1;

hope that helps
Omid

>From: Bhuvan A <bhuvansql@yahoo.com>
>To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
>Subject: [SQL] Getting 'n-1'th record.
>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:11:33 +0530 (IST)
>
>
>hi all,
>
>consider below..
>
>An sql query results with 'n' records. OK.
>I need ONLY the 'n-1'th record.
>
>
>HOW CAN I GET THIS?
>
>Thankx in advance!
>
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