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From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: val@webtribe.net
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Delete 1 Record of 2 Duplicate Records
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:00:07 -0200 (GMT+2)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301301359000.25269-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030130115201.D4EB21833A@cheetah.webtribe.net>

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 val@webtribe.net wrote:

> How do I delete only 1 of the duplicate records?

Do

select oid,* from test where column_id = 5;

then choose which oid to delete
and do

delete from test where oid = ...;

>
>
>  column_name | column_id
> ---------------------+--------------
>  test1                 |         5
>  test1                 |         5
>
>
> I've tried this:
>
> tmp_test=# delete from test where column_id = 5 limit 1;
> ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "limit"
>
> I'm using version 7.2.1
>
> Thank you.
>
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Achilleus Mantzios
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