SELECT INSTEAD - Mailing list pgsql-sql

<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma">Hi all,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma">I’m trying to create a view of the query below, but I’m being barked at about “rules on SELECT must
haveaction INSTEAD SELECT”. I don’t have any rules in my database, and I don’t know how this query is trying to create
one.The query does work if I just run it interactively. Any help would be much appreciated.</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"style="text-indent:36.0pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> </span></font><pclass="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">SELECT DISTINCT ON (m1.id)</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        UPPER(m1.id) AS id,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        UPPER(m1.first_name) AS first_name,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        UPPER(m1.last_name) AS last_name,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        UPPER(m1.company) AS company,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        UPPER(m1.address1) AS address1,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        UPPER(m1.address2) AS address2,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        UPPER(m1.suburb) AS suburb,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        UPPER(m1.state) AS state</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent:36.0pt"><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">INTO TEMP
TABLEmail_duplicates</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">FROM   maillist as m1</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent:36.0pt"><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">INNER JOIN
maillistas m2 ON</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        (           m1.id <> m2.id</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        AND      UPPER(m1.first_name) = UPPER(m2.first_name)</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        AND      UPPER(m1.last_name) = UPPER(m2.last_name)</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        AND      UPPER(m1.suburb) = UPPER(m2.suburb)</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        )</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">WHERE  TRIM(m1.first_name) <>
''</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> AND    TRIM(m1.last_name) <> ''</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent:36.0pt"><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">;</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">SELECT d.id AS "ID",</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        INITCAP(d.first_name) AS first_name,</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        INITCAP(d.last_name) AS last_name,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        INITCAP(d.company) AS company,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        INITCAP(d.address1) AS address1,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        INITCAP(d.address2) AS address2,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Tahoma"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        d.suburb AS suburb,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma"
size="2"><spanstyle="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Tahoma">                        d.state AS state</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent:36.0pt"><fontface="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">FROM   
mail_duplicatesAS d</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">ORDERBY d.last_name, d.first_name, d.suburb, d.id</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"style="text-indent:36.0pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">;</span></font></div><br/><p><b>*******************Confidentiality and
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