Re: select count of distinct rows

From: Havasvölgyi Ottó <h(dot)otto(at)freemail(dot)hu>
To: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Frank Bax" <fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca>
Subject: Re: select count of distinct rows
Date: 2005-12-11 01:29:26
Message-ID: 008601c5fdf2$5332d380$0200a8c0@OTTO
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Oh, that's it.
Thank you all very much.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Bax" <fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca>
To: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] select count of distinct rows

At 07:53 PM 12/10/05, Havasvölgyi Ottó wrote:
>I would like to select the count of distinct rows in a table.
> SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT *) FROM mytable;
>This does not work. How can I do it with Postgres?

select count(*) from (select distinct * from mytable) as x;

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