Re: Finding missing values in sequence column

From: Jasen Betts <jasen(at)xnet(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Finding missing values in sequence column
Date: 2010-12-30 18:49:49
Message-ID: ifik8d$mo8$1@reversiblemaps.ath.cx
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On 2010-12-30, Lukasz Brodziak <lukasz(dot)brodziak(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with writing a select statement that would return
> records for which difference in values of this and following ID is
> bigger than 1. Example table
> ID Data
> 1 Text
> 2 Text2
> 5 Text5
> 23 Text23
> 24 TXT
> 25 RRRR
>
> So I need to return rows with IDs 2,5,23.

SELECT id FROM Example EXCEPT SELECT id-1 FROM Example;

select * FROM Example WHERE id+1 NOT IN ( SELECT id FROM Example );

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> When You look at Your reflection is that all you want it to be
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>

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