Steve Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:29 AM 7/16/2008, Tom Lane wrote: >> I think what is happening is that ORDER BY knows that and gets rid of >> the duplicate entries while DISTINCT ON fails to do so.
> Of course removing the duplicate from both areas is the correct > solution and I broke down and hacked that into the auto-sql-writing > code and so my immediate problem is solved. I'm happy to file this as a > ticket for Pg (please point me to your ticket tool as I've never used > it). This is not a very big deal but Pg has such a high compliance with > wacky-but-valid SQL it does seem like it should be fixed just because. I've applied a patch for this to CVS HEAD. I doubt we'll try to fix it in the back branches, though --- it's too much of a corner case to be worth taking any risk of breaking other stuff. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql