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From: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
To: Rudi Starcevic <rudi@oasis.net.au>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Delete duplicates
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:20:15 +0200
Message-ID: <200306221220.15480.barwick@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030622091522.M37248@oasis.net.au>
References: <20030622091522.M37248@oasis.net.au>

On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:15, Rudi Starcevic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a table with duplicates and trouble with my SQL.

(...)

> select a1.id
> from aap a1
> where id < ( SELECT max(id) FROM aap AS a2 )
> AND EXISTS
> (
> SELECT *
> FROM aap AS a2
> WHERE a1.keyword = a2.keyword
> )

How about (untested):

SELECT a1.id
  FROM aap a1
 WHERE id = (SELECT MAX(id) FROM aap a2
              WHERE a2.keyword = a1.keyword)


Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net





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