From: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> |
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To: | Denis Arh <denis(at)exonium(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Delete duplicates |
Date: | 2003-06-23 05:22:56 |
Message-ID: | 20030623052256.GS97131@perrin.int.nxad.com |
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> How to delete "real" duplicates?
>
> id | somthing
> -----------------------
> 1 | aaa
> 1 | aaa
> 2 | bbb
> 2 | bbb
>
> (an accident with backup recovery...)
I'm not 100% on some of the syntax off the top of my head, but:
BEGIN;
ALTER TABLE orig_table RENAME TO backup_table;
CREATE TABLE orig_table AS SELECT id,something FROM backup_table GROUP BY id, something;
-- Create any indexes on orig_table that need to be recreated
DROP TABLE orig_table;
COMMIT;
This isn't for the faint of heart: be sure to do this inside of a
transaction or on a backup db until you're 100% good to go. -sc
--
Sean Chittenden
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