Re: [GENERAL] Re: [INTERFACES] the last row in a table

>On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Marcin Grondecki wrote:
>
># There is better answer, i think. Simply read smth about cursors -
># declaring, using, droping. I think this is what u need.  In case of
># troubles with understanding, i'd serve with some examples in Perl.
>
>	If it's the exact last input row you want, a trigger or rule would
>be still yet better.  :)

Or another possibility (again, if it's the last inputed row you want) is

SELECT * FROM <table> WHERE oid=( SELECT max(oid::float) FROM <table> );

I'm assuming here that the largest the oid the latest it was put in...
that's right isn't it (he said, all of a sudden hesitant).

Also, I could only get this to work by typecasting oid as float.  Anybody
know why?

Regards,

Stuart.


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