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Re: problem with distinct not distincting...

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John Beynon <john@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> I have a pretty basic query;
> select distinct on (name) name, length(name) from
> drugs
> where customer_id IS NOT NULL
> order by name;

> which I'd expect to only return me a single drug name if there are
> duplicates, yet I get

> name | length
> ==========
> Roaccutane | 10
> Roaccutane | 10

> table encoding is UTF8...

> I'm scratching my head!

Yeah, me too.  What PG version is this exactly?  What does EXPLAIN
show for the query?  Can you extract a self-contained test case?

			regards, tom lane


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