On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:43:25PM +0200, Albrecht Berger wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a table which I query with something like " SELECT DISTINCT ON("c")
> FROM table ... " .
>
> Not every row in the column "c" does have a value, some are null.
> My problem is, that I want to eliminate double values in "c" only if they
> are not null !
CREATE SEQUENCE tmp_seq;
SELECT DISTINCT ON (COALESCE("c", nextval('tmp_seq')) * FROM table ...
DROP SEQUENNCE tmp_seq;
or even
SELECT DISTINCT ON (COALESCE("c", random())) * FROM table ...
Not sure I'm right...
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Fduch M. Pravking
