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I want to get all the columns of a table with max(timestamp) and group by name.
What i have tried so far is: normal_query ="Select max(timestamp) as time from table"
event_list = normal_query \
.distinct(Table.name)\
.filter_by(**filter_by_query) \
.filter(*queries) \
.group_by(*group_by_fields) \
.order_by('').all()
the query i get :
SELECT DISTINCT ON (schema.table.name) , max(timestamp)....
this query basically returns two columns with name and timestamp.
whereas, the query i want :
SELECT DISTINCT ON (schema.table.name) * from table order by ....
which returns all the columns in that table.Which is the expected behavior and i am able to get all the columns, how could i right it down in python to get to this statement?.Basically the asterisk is missing. Can somebody help me?
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The DISTINCT clause is used in the SELECT statement to remove duplicate rows from a result set. The DISTINCT clause keeps one row for each group of duplicates. The DISTINCT clause can be applied to one or more columns in the select list of the SELECT statement.
Removing duplicate rows from a query result set in PostgreSQL can be done using the SELECT statement with the DISTINCT clause. It keeps one row for each group of duplicates. The DISTINCT clause can be used for a single column or for a list of columns.
This SQLAlchemy engine is a global object which can be created and configured once and use the same engine object multiple times for different operations. The first step in establishing a connection with the PostgreSQL database is creating an engine object using the create_engine() function of SQLAlchemy.
¶ The SQLAlchemy ORM, in order to map to a particular table, needs there to be at least one column denoted as a primary key column; multiple-column, i.e. composite, primary keys are of course entirely feasible as well.
What you seem to be after is the DISTINCT ON ... ORDER BY idiom in Postgresql for selecting greatest-n-per-group results (N = 1). So instead of grouping and aggregating just
event_list = Table.query.\
distinct(Table.name).\
filter_by(**filter_by_query).\
filter(*queries).\
order_by(Table.name, Table.timestamp.desc()).\
all()
This will end up selecting rows "grouped" by name, having the greatest timestamp value.
You do not want to use the asterisk most of the time, not in your application code anyway, unless you're doing manual ad-hoc queries. The asterisk is basically "all columns from the FROM table/relation", which might then break your assumptions later, if you add columns, reorder them, and such.
In case you'd like to order the resulting rows based on timestamp in the final result, you can use for example Query.from_self() to turn the query to a subquery, and order in the enclosing query:
event_list = Table.query.\
distinct(Table.name).\
filter_by(**filter_by_query).\
filter(*queries).\
order_by(Table.name, Table.timestamp.desc()).\
from_self().\
order_by(Table.timestamp.desc()).\
all()
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