select * from t order by record_date desc limit 5; this will return the recent 5 records.. what I want is the oldest 5 records (in last 30 days)
From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 12:38 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Fetching last n records from Posgresql On 3/29/2016 11:40 PM, Deole, Pushkar (Pushkar) wrote: WITH t AS ( SELECT * FROM mytable ORDER BY record_date ASC LIMIT 5 ) SELECT * FROM t ORDER BY record_date DESC; why do it twice when you can just do.... select * from t order by record_date desc limit 5; -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
