From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Removing duplicate rows
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:22:38 -0500
Message-ID: <20070206222238.GA28647@phlogiston.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45C8FDE6.6050603@autoledgers.com.au>
References: <45C8FDE6.6050603@autoledgers.com.au>
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:15:02AM +0900, Paul Lambert wrote:
>
> I'm assuming the best way to get around this is to load the data into a
> temporary table with "copy from" and then do a "select distinct into" my
> real table.
You might find that sort|uniq at the command prompt would be better.
That said,
> script to create the table as a copy of the existing 'real' table. I'm
> assuming "create table as" would be what I need to use, but what would I
> use as the select sql - i.e. how do I use select to pull the definition
> of a table.
an easy way to do this is "CREATE TABLE name AS SELECT . . . WHERE
1=0". You get a table with no rows. (WHERE FALSE and similar
constructs all work equally well.)
A
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