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Re: Group by with insensitive order

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:37:58PM -0500, Aram Fingal wrote:
> Suppose I'm doing a group by query like the following:
> 
> SELECT drug1, drug2, AVG(response)
> FROM data
> GROUP BY drug1, drug2
> 
> The problem is that the same drug may appear sometimes as drug1 and
> sometimes as drug2.  So, for example, the combination "aspirin,
> acetaminophen" may also appear as "acetaminophen, aspirin" and I want
> these grouped together in the query.  Is there a simple way to do
> this?

instead of drug1 write: least(drug1, drug2) and instead of drug2 write:
greatest(drug1, drug2) - both in select and group by.

Best regards,

depesz

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