On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:04:12AM -0400, Clark Slater wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I am trying to use DISTINCT ON to filter out *potential* duplicate values
> from a set of sub queries. There are certain cases where there can be
> repetitive part numbers that are priced differently. I'm trying to start
> with the full list, ordered by priority, and then remove any repeats that
> have a lesser priority.
I think what you need to do is order by part_number first, do the
DISTINCT ON () and then do an ORDER BY priority around that.
Hope this helps,
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