Re: Deleting one of 2 identical records

From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Deleting one of 2 identical records
Date: 2011-09-06 17:57:35
Message-ID: 20110906175735.GA18140@tux
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Gauthier, Dave <dave(dot)gauthier(at)intel(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi:
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> If I have a table that has 2 records which are identical with regard to all
> their column values, is there a way to delete one of them, leaving one
> remaining? Is there some unique record_id key of some sort I can use for
> somethign like this?

Yes, use the CTID-column.

Andreas
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