Re: is a 'pairwise' possible / feasible in SQL? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ragnar
Subject Re: is a 'pairwise' possible / feasible in SQL?
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In response to Re: is a 'pairwise' possible / feasible in SQL?  (Rajarshi Guha <rguha@indiana.edu>)
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On mán, 2008-08-04 at 17:00 -0400, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
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> On Aug 4, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > On 2:08 pm 08/04/08 Rajarshi Guha <rguha@indiana.edu> wrote:
> >> pair        count
> >> - ----        -----
> >> 123 & 456   1
> >> 667 & 879   2
> >
> <snip>
>
> >  select a.cid as ac, b.cid as bc, count(*) from aic_cid a left
> > outer join
> > aic_cid b on a.cid <>b.cid and a.id = b.id where b.cid is not null
> > group by
> > a.cid, b.cid order by a.cid;
> >  ac  | bc  | count
> > -----+-----+-------
> >  123 | 456 |     1
> >  123 | 667 |     1
> > ...
> > Is that what you are looking for?
>
> Thanks a lot - this is very close. Ideally, I'd want unique pairs, so
> the row
>
> 879 | 999 |     1
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> is the same as
>
> 999 | 879 |     1
>
> Can these duplicates be avoided?

just add a ac<bc condition:
   select a.cid as ac, b.cid as bc, count(*)
   from aic_cid a left outer join aic_cid b
           on a.cid <> b.cid and a.id = b.id
   where b.cid is not null AND  a.cid < b.cid
   group by a.cid, b.cid
   order by a.cid;

gnari



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