From: | Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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To: | Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: SQL question - duplicate records from join |
Date: | 2002-03-04 20:27:32 |
Message-ID: | 20020304202732.69527.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com |
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Are you sure that the data in your new installation is
really the same as in the old, i.e. your data did not
get loaded twice??
--- Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I sent the attached email a few days ago, and if
> anyone can help me
> I'd be really appreciative - I'm no SQL guru and
> this one has me
> stumped! If this is the wrong forum for this message
> please do
> redirect me.
>
> --Ray.
>
> On 28 Feb 2002 at 18:46, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
>
> > I recently upgraded to Postgres 7.1 (having
> finally found the correct
> > pg_dump!), and now I notice that joins are
> returning duplicate
> > records. A typical query would be:
> >
> > select i.itemcode, i.itemname, d.deptname,
> r.roomname
> > from items i
> > inner join departments d on
> (i.deptcode=d.deptcode)
> > inner join rooms r on (i.roomcode=r.roomcode)
> > where... (etc)
> >
> > This query returns four copies of each record,
> where before I just got
> > one as I'd expect. Am I doing something wrong
> here?
>
>
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