Re: dumb question

On 06/02/2016 04:07 PM, Dann Corbit wrote:
> This is your request, translated directly into SQL
>
>     select max(id) from sometable where sts=0 and ref_id IS NULL
>
> Looking at your sample, it seems that sts is always 1 when ref_id exists, so it may possibly simplify to:
>
>     select max(id) from sometable where sts=0
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Steve Clark
> Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 9:56 AM
> To: pgsql <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Subject: [GENERAL] dumb question
>
> Hi List,
>
> I am a noob trying to do something that seems like it should be easy but I can't figure it out.
>
> I have a table like so:
>
> id | ref_id | sts
> ------------------
> 1  |        |  0
> 2  | 1      |  1
> 3  |        |  0
> 4  |        |  0
> 5  | 4      |  1
> 6  |        |  0
> 7  | 6      |  1
>
> I want to find the max(id) whose sts is 0 but whose id is not referenced by ref_id.
>
> so the answer would be id=3.
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
> Steve
>
Hi Dan,

Thanks for the response - but I think that would give me id=6 and not id=3.

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Stephen Clark