ok, let me clarify, dont want to remove them just want them changed but need to keep the uid. However, I would like just one somevalue to remain the same. so for example, uids, 2,4 and 8 have somevalue 44, after i would like 2 to remain 44 but uids 4 and 8 would be changed.
2008/1/21, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>: On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 12:36 -0500, Rhys Stewart wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> have the following table
>
> uid|somevalue
> --------------------
> 1|11
> 2|44
> 3|31
> 4|44
> 5|71
> 6|33
> 7|33
> 8|44
> 9|14
>
> would like to remove the duplicate values in the column somevalue.
> doing this by just adding a random number is perfectly fine, however
> i want to retain at least one of the original values of somevalue. Any
> ideas how to do this in in a query?
Would something like this help?
SELECT MIN(uid), somevalue FROM mytable GROUP BY somevalue;
Also consider just doing:
SELECT DISTINCT somevalue FROM mytable;
...if you don't need uid in the result set.
Regards,
Jeff Davis