Thread: [SQL Question] Selecting distinct rows having field value pairs on semantics
Hi all, I am looking for a way of selecting records from a table comprising of pairing fields having unique semantics, where the pair of values of lets say 'left' and 'right' and another pair having values of 'right' and 'left' is considered as duplicates as they have the same meaning. Below is my table structure. create table ppi_edges_tf ( tf_id1 char(6)not null, tf_id2 char(6)not null, primary key(tf_id1,tf_id2) ); I would like to create a query on this table that will contain only unique [tf_id1 and tf_id2] combination is unique semantically. for example looking at a select rows of the table tf_id1 | tf_id2 -------+-------- T00111 | T00111 T00111 | T00112 T00111 | T01400 T00111 | T05015 T00112 | T00111 The second record (T00111 | T00112) and the fifth record(T00112 | T00111) have the same pairing meaning and should be considered duplicate in my case and only one for the records (either one) should be contained in the desired resultset of unique values. The desired resultset could be something like this tf_id1 | tf_id2 -------+-------- T00111 | T00111 T00111 | T00112 T00111 | T01400 T00111 | T05015 Allan. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [SQL Question] Selecting distinct rows having field value pairs on semantics
From
Harald Fuchs
Date:
In article <20061003075437.38014.qmail@web53507.mail.yahoo.com>,
Allan Kamau <kamauallan@yahoo.com> writes:
> Hi all,
> I am looking for a way of selecting records from a
> table comprising of pairing fields having unique
> semantics, where the pair of values of lets say 'left'
> and 'right' and another pair having values of 'right'
> and 'left' is considered as duplicates as they have
> the same meaning.
In the future, please use comp.db.postgresql.sql for questions like that.
> Below is my table structure.
> create table ppi_edges_tf
> (
> tf_id1 char(6)not null,
> tf_id2 char(6)not null,
> primary key(tf_id1,tf_id2)
> );
> I would like to create a query on this table that will
> contain only unique [tf_id1 and tf_id2] combination is
> unique semantically.
> for example looking at a select rows of the table
> tf_id1 | tf_id2
> -------+--------
> T00111 | T00111
> T00111 | T00112
> T00111 | T01400
> T00111 | T05015
> T00112 | T00111
> The second record (T00111 | T00112) and the fifth
> record(T00112 | T00111) have the same pairing meaning
> and should be considered duplicate in my case and only
> one for the records (either one) should be contained
> in the desired resultset of unique values.
You could use something like that:
SELECT DISTINCT id1, id2
FROM (SELECT CASE WHEN tf_id1 <= tf_id2 THEN tf_id1 ELSE tf_id2 END AS id1,
CASE WHEN tf_id1 >= tf_id2 THEN tf_id1 ELSE tf_id2 END AS id2
FROM ppi_edges_tf
) AS dummy