Duplicate entries with different primary keys (SERIAL)

Dear Group,

I have a large mamoth table with many duplicated rows
except one. Means, out of 10 columns 8 columns data
is identical and 10th one is different (not for every
row but for ~ 50 K rows 13 times). The 9th column is
the unique data column.

I parsed out the unique IDs and made it into a table
(seq_ID table , number ~ 186K rows).

Using SELECT DISTINCT I creted a temporary table by
givin g a WHERE clause :
WHERE mamoth.table.seq_id = small.table_seq_id;

I expected to see the unique_IDs padded with rest of
column data from mamoth table.

However, even after using DISTINCT method I get
duplicated entries with different primary_ids
(generated using SERIAL attribute)

E.g. Please look at the result.
Key_ID Unique_Seq_id
8793 1000_at
132738 1000_at
8794 1001_at
132739 1001_at
8795 1002_f_at
132740 1002_f_at
8796 1003_s_at
132741 1003_s_at
8797 1004_at
132742 1004_at
8798 1005_at

I made this mamoth table from 13 huge files into
mamoth table by COPY command.

A cursorial check shows me that the data from two
tables is giving raise to duplicated entries. The rest
columns data is identical (to say that they differ
even in spelling mistakes).

Can any one please, please help me. I am stuck with my
project :-(

Thank you very much.

Kumar

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