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From: Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>
To: sad <sad@bankir.ru>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: a wierd query
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:27:59 -0600
Message-ID: <40A393FF.3030806@onesystem.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405131134.35156.sad@bankir.ru>
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	<200405131134.35156.sad@bankir.ru>

sad wrote:
> select distinct a as F from table
> union
> select distinct b as F from table;
>

Note that UNION only returns the unique values of the union
You can get repeated values by using UNION ALL.


-- 
Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>



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