5.27. PostgreSQL DISTINCT keyword

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In PostgreSQL DISTINCT Keywords vs. SELECT Statement to remove duplicate records and get only unique records.

When we are usually manipulating data, there may be a situation in which there are multiple duplicate records in a table, and when extracting such records DISTINCT The keyword is particularly meaningful because it only gets a single record, not a duplicate record.

5.27.1. Grammar

Used to remove duplicate records DISTINCT The basic syntax for keywords is as follows:

SELECT DISTINCT column1, column2,.....columnN FROM table_name WHERE [condition] 

5.27.2. Example

Create COMPANY 表( 下载 COMPANY SQL 文件 ), the data are as follows:

runoobdb# select * from COMPANY; id | name | age | address | salary ----+-------+-----+-----------+-------- 1 | Paul | 32 | California| 20000 2 | Allen | 25 | Texas | 15000 3 | Teddy | 23 | Norway | 20000 4 | Mark | 25 | Rich-Mond | 65000 5 | David | 27 | Texas | 85000 6 | Kim | 22 | South-Hall| 45000 7 | James | 24 | Houston | 10000 (7 rows) 

Let’s insert two pieces of data:

INSERT INTO COMPANY (ID,NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY) VALUES (8, 'Paul', 32, 'California', 20000.00 ); INSERT INTO COMPANY (ID,NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,SALARY) VALUES (9, 'Allen', 25, 'Texas', 15000.00 ); 

Now the figures are as follows:

 id | name | age | address | salary ----+-------+-----+------------+-------- 1 | Paul | 32 | California | 20000 2 | Allen | 25 | Texas | 15000 3 | Teddy | 23 | Norway | 20000 4 | Mark | 25 | Rich-Mond | 65000 5 | David | 27 | Texas | 85000 6 | Kim | 22 | South-Hall | 45000 7 | James | 24 | Houston | 10000 8 | Paul | 32 | California | 20000 9 | Allen | 25 | Texas | 15000 (9 rows) 

Next, let’s find all the NAME in the COMPANY table:

runoobdb=# SELECT name FROM COMPANY; 

The results are as follows:

 name ------- Paul Allen Teddy Mark David Kim James Paul Allen (9 rows) 

Now we’re here. SELECT Statement using the DISTINCT Clause:

runoobdb=# SELECT DISTINCT name FROM COMPANY; 

The results are as follows:

name ------- Teddy Paul Mark David Allen Kim James (7 rows) 

As you can see from the results, the duplicate data has been deleted.

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