Re: problem with distinct not distincting...

Are you sure that one of those entries doesn't have a trailing space?

Susan

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From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of John Beynon
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:48 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] problem with distinct not distincting...

I have a pretty basic query;

select distinct on (name) name, length(name) from drugs where customer_id IS NOT NULL order by name;

which I'd expect to only return me a single drug name if there are duplicates, yet I get

name | length
==========
Roaccutane | 10
Roaccutane | 10

table encoding is UTF8...

I'm scratching my head!

Thanks,

John.


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