Lost me a bit, do you mean DISTINCT?

select distinct state1, first(timestamp) from table????

On May 27, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Nikolas Everett wrote:

> Say I have a table that stores state transitions over time like so:
> id, transitionable_id, state1, state2, timestamp
> 
> I'm trying to write a query that coalesces changes in state2 away to produce 
> just a list of transitions of state1.  I guess it would look something like
> 
> SELECT state1, FIRST(timestamp)
> FROM table
> 
> but I have no idea how to aggregate just the repeated state1 rows.


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