Re: Counting distinct rows

From: John Taylor <postgres(at)jtresponse(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Counting distinct rows
Date: 2002-01-16 11:17:26
Message-ID: 02011611172602.02222@splash.hq.jtresponse.co.uk
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On Wednesday 16 January 2002 11:03, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> On 16.01.02 10:38 +0000(+0000), John Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having problems counting the number of distinct rows in a table.
> >
> > I've tried the following:
> >
> > select distinct on(id) count(id) from basketupdates order by id desc;
> >
>
> SELECT count(distinct id) FROM basketupdates;
> see http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-expressions.html
> for more information.
>

Thats it!

Thanks
JohnT

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