Re: deleting an identical record

On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 03:44, Lee Harr wrote:
> > In a table I entered by accident two times the same record, if I now
> > list the table I see two lines with exactly the same contents. How can
> > I delete one of those two records? I can't find a select criterium which
> > differs for both.
> >
>
>
> create table t (a int, b text);
>
> insert into t values (1, 'a');
> insert into t values (1, 'a');
> insert into t values (1, 'a');
> insert into t values (1, 'a');
>
> select oid, * from t;

Aren't the oids different?

DELETE FROM t WHERE oid <> xxx

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