Try this
SELECT file_id ,COUNT(*) as numberOfOccurrences
FROM temp_tagged
GROUP BY file_id
ORDER BY numberOfOccurrences DESC;
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Best,
Oliveiros
----- Original Message -----
From: <postgres-novice@coreland.ath.cx>
To: <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:04 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] Remove duplicate rows and order by number of occurences
> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to SELECT from the following table:
>
> file_id
> ---------
> 1
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 5
> 6
> 9
> 9
> 9
> 10
> 10
>
> The result I'm trying to achieve is essentially to order the
> file_id column, in descending order, by the number of times
> each row occurs with a given value. I would also like to remove
> duplicate rows. In other words, the above table becomes
> (approximately):
>
> file_id
> ---------
> 9
> 10
> 1
> 6
> 5
> 3
> 2
>
> The order of the last four values isn't significant (they occur
> an equal number of times).
>
> I thought that this might be the solution:
>
> SELECT file_id FROM temp_tagged;
> GROUP BY file_id
> ORDER BY count (file_id) DESC;
>
> But apparently, it isn't.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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