Re: How can I selet rows which have 2 columns values cross equal?

What are your conditions on a and b ? Can a be equal to b on a row ? If  
so, do you want this row ?
If you want to avoid duplicates, I suggest first removing them, then  
adding a constraint CHECK( a<b ) for instance. Then, from you r  
application (or in an ON INSERT trigger), swap a and b if a>b.

I added some values to your table for completeness :

SELECT * FROM test;  a  |  b  | id
-----+-----+---- 100 | 101 |  1 101 | 100 |  2 100 |   3 |  3  20 |  30 |  4  11 |  13 |  5   3 |  33 |  6  30 |  20 |
7666 | 666 |  8 666 | 666 |  9 500 | 666 | 10 666 | 500 | 11 123 | 123 | 12 456 | 789 | 13 456 | 789 | 14
 

Try :

SELECT x.id AS xid, y.id AS yid, x.a AS xa, x.b AS xb, y.a AS ya, y.b AS  
yb FROM test x, test y WHERE x.a=y.b AND x.b=y.a;
 xid | yid | xa  | xb  | ya  | yb
-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----   1 |   2 | 100 | 101 | 101 | 100   2 |   1 | 101 | 100 | 100 | 101   4 |   7 |  20
| 30 |  30 |  20   7 |   4 |  30 |  20 |  20 |  30   8 |   9 | 666 | 666 | 666 | 666   8 |   8 | 666 | 666 | 666 | 666
9 |   9 | 666 | 666 | 666 | 666   9 |   8 | 666 | 666 | 666 | 666  10 |  11 | 500 | 666 | 666 | 500  11 |  10 | 666 |
500| 500 | 666  12 |  12 | 123 | 123 | 123 | 123
 


You'll get 2 rows for each match. You can add a condition to remove the  
dupes :

SELECT x.id AS xid, y.id AS yid, x.a AS xa, x.b AS xb, y.a AS ya, y.b AS  
yb FROM test x, test y WHERE x.a=y.b AND x.b=y.a AND x.id<=y.id;
 xid | yid | xa  | xb  | ya  | yb
-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----   1 |   2 | 100 | 101 | 101 | 100   4 |   7 |  20 |  30 |  30 |  20   8 |   9 | 666
|666 | 666 | 666   8 |   8 | 666 | 666 | 666 | 666   9 |   9 | 666 | 666 | 666 | 666  10 |  11 | 500 | 666 | 666 | 500
12|  12 | 123 | 123 | 123 | 123
 

If you don't want the rows with a=b, replace x.id<=y.id with x.id<y.id

SELECT x.id AS xid, y.id AS yid, x.a AS xa, x.b AS xb, y.a AS ya, y.b AS  
yb FROM test x, test y WHERE x.a=y.b AND x.b=y.a AND x.id<y.id;

 xid | yid | xa  | xb  | ya  | yb
-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----   1 |   2 | 100 | 101 | 101 | 100   4 |   7 |  20 |  30 |  30 |  20   8 |   9 | 666
|666 | 666 | 666  10 |  11 | 500 | 666 | 666 | 500
 

It is going to be slow, though. Basically a full self join. Let's hack  
this :

CREATE AGGREGATE array_accum (    sfunc = array_append,    basetype = anyelement,    stype = anyarray,    initcond =
'{}'
);

I'll leave this one as an exercice to the reader ;)))

SELECT array_accum(id), CASE WHEN a<b THEN a ELSE b END AS low, CASE WHEN  
a<b THEN b ELSE a END AS high FROM test GROUP BY low, high HAVING  
sum(sign(a-b)) = 0 AND count(*)>1; array_accum | low | high
-------------+-----+------ {10,11}     | 500 |  666 {4,7}       |  20 |   30 {1,2}       | 100 |  101 {8,9}       | 666
| 666
 



On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:24:44 +0100, Fay Du <fay.du@versaterm.com> wrote:

> Hi All:
> I have a table like this:
>
>    Table test
> Id   |  a | b
> -----+----+---
> 1    | 100| 101
> 2    | 101| 100
> 3    | 100| 3
> 4    | 20 | 30
> 5    | 11 | 13
> 6    | 3  | 33
> 7    | 30 | 20
>
> I want to get row 1, 2,4 and 7 selected. Because their values of a and b
> are cross equal. i.e., for each pair of rows,
> a.Row1 = b.Row2 and b.Ro1 = a.Row2
> a.Row4 = b.Row7 and b.Ro4 = a.Row7
>
> How can I construct a sql statement to select them?
> Thanks in advance.
> Fay
>
>
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