Given a table like this in PostgreSQL:
Messages
message_id | creating_user_id | receiving_user_id | created_utc
-----------+------------------+-------------------+-------------
1 | 1 | 2 | 1424816011
2 | 3 | 2 | 1424816012
3 | 3 | 2 | 1424816013
4 | 1 | 3 | 1424816014
5 | 1 | 3 | 1424816015
6 | 2 | 1 | 1424816016
7 | 2 | 1 | 1424816017
8 | 1 | 2 | 1424816018
I want to get the newest two rows per creating_user_id/receiving_user_id where the other user_id is 1. So the result of the query should look like:
message_id | creating_user_id | receiving_user_id | created_utc
-----------+------------------+-------------------+-------------
1 | 1 | 2 | 1424816011
4 | 1 | 3 | 1424816014
5 | 1 | 3 | 1424816015
6 | 2 | 1 | 1424816016
Using a window function with row_number() I can get the first 2 messages for each creating_user_id or the first 2 messages for each receiving_user_id, but I'm not sure how to get the first two messages for per creating_user_id/receiving_user_id.
Since you filter rows where one of both columns is 1 (and irrelevant), and 1 happens to be the smallest number of all, you can simply use GREATEST(creating_user_id, receiving_user_id) to distill the relevant number to PARTITION BY. (Else you could employ CASE.)
The rest is standard procedure: calculate a row number in a subquery and select the first two in the outer query:
SELECT message_id, creating_user_id, receiving_user_id, created_utc
FROM (
SELECT *
, row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY GREATEST (creating_user_id
, receiving_user_id)
ORDER BY created_utc) AS rn
FROM messages
WHERE 1 IN (creating_user_id, receiving_user_id)
) sub
WHERE rn < 3
ORDER BY created_utc;
Exactly your result.
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