Re: select first occurrence of a table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Erik Ronström
Subject Re: select first occurrence of a table
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Msg-id 20030502173308.44115.qmail@web13806.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to select first occurrence of a table  ("Johnson, Shaunn" <SJohnson6@bcbsm.com>)
Responses Re: select first occurrence of a table  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Status of OIDs was: Re: select first occurrence of a table  (Benjamin Scherrey <scherrey@proteus-tech.com>)
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> I have a table that happens to have a some
> duplicate entries in it (entire rows).  I would like
> to update one row and change one thing
> about it, but it seems that I need a unique value
> to do it; otherwise, I wind up changing multiple
> rows.

If the table has OIDs (which is the default), you can use the OID as a
unique identifier for a row. But then you'll have to perform two
queries:

SELECT oid FROM table WHERE ... LIMIT 1;

UPDATE table SET ... WHERE oid = ...;

Erik

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