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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works…

The first query works by grouping together the rows on the unique column and counting rows. Anything with more than one row must be caused by duplicate values. If we're looking for duplicates of more than one column (or even all columns), then we have to use an SQL of the following form:

SELECT *FROM mytableWHERE  (col1, col2, ... ,colN) IN(SELECT col1, col2, ... ,colN FROM mytable GROUP BY  col1, col2, ... ,colN HAVING count(*) > 1);

Here, col1, col2, and so on until colN are the columns of the key.

Note that this type of query may need to sort the complete table on all the key columns. That will require sort space equal to the size of the table, so you'd better think first before running that SQL on very large tables. You'll ...

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