Re: [SQL] Duplicate rows

Oleg Broytmann <phd@comus.ru>

From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@comus.ru>
To: Andy Lewis <alewis@mpsi.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-05-16T09:31:32Z
Lists: pgsql-sql
Hello.

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Andy Lewis wrote:
> I have a postgres db with at least 1000 rows in it. I'd like to know if its
> possible to detect duplicate values of a column if I don't know which values
> that are dups?

   Try to create UNIQUE index on a problematic column. If creating the
unique index failes - there are duplicates (providing that creating the
index wouldn't fail by other reasons - disk full, memory shortage, etc.)

Oleg.
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