>What I am looking to do is >- grab every record for $user >- remove any records that have identical ipaddress+sessionid+refid >- then sort the results by date_time or something else this last requirement is where the problem is... is you do a sum() or order by in the select statement you get and error, for example; select distinct on (sessionid) sum(sessiontime) from logs where name='joeblowuser' and datetime > 1036040400; ERROR: Attribute logs.sessionid must be GROUPed or used in an aggregate function Same if you have to order by datetime or something... Dave