From: Abe <abe@fish.tm>
To: Anand Raman <araman@india-today.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: COUNT(Distinct city) HELP!!!
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 12:14:02 -0000
Message-ID: <000e01c06f35$567609a0$6500a8c0@win2k> (raw)
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No Joy,
unfortunately - It may well be time to upgrade.
Thanks,
Abe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anand Raman" <araman@india-today.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] COUNT(Distinct city) HELP!!!
> or u can also try
>
> select count(*)
> from
> (select distinct city from ct);
>
> Hope this helps
> Anand
>
> On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 05:27:30PM -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> >
> >I believe that functionality was added in version 7.0,
> >are you using an earlier version?
> >
> >On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Abe wrote:
> >
> >> Hey there,
> >>
> >> I get this error but I think this is supposed to work:
> >>
> >> The table has some duplicates such as Munich I want the number of
distinct cities:
> >>
> >> abenew=> select * from ct;
> >> name| age| city
> >> ---- +--- +------
> >> jow | 10| london
> >> tim | 15| paris
> >> kim | 17| munich
> >> te | 19| munich
> >> (8 rows)
> >>
> >> My query is as follows:
> >>
> >> tester => select count(distinct city) from ct;
> >> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "distinct"
> >>
> >> Any guidance would be appreciated...
> >> Thanks
> >> Abe
> >>
>
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