could not create unique index, table contains duplicated values - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Christian Hofmann
Subject could not create unique index, table contains duplicated values
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Hello,

I have a table with two columns (id, names).

At this time there is no index, because i have not needed any one.

There are about 120 million rows. Now I want to delete all duplicate rows.
I thought I could just create a unique index and postgresql qould do the
rest. But ok. Maybe postgresql didn't know which rows to delete.

Is there a query that will delete all rows where the same name is more than
one time in the table?
I only want to have every name once in the table.

My method to write a programm, select every row and cvompare it to the
others would be very slow.

There is something with a having statement, but I don't get the clue to
build that statement.

Can you help me?

Thank you very much,

Christian



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