am 07.05.2009 20:54 Uhr schrieb Scott Marlowe unter scott.marl...@gmail.com:

> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Maximilian Tyrtania
> <maximilian.tyrta...@onlinehome.de> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> does this look right?
>> 
>> FAKDB=# select count(distinct(f.land)) from firmen f where
>> f.typlist='Redaktion';
>>  count
>> -------
>>  1975
>> (1 row)
>> 
>> FAKDB=# select count(distinct(f.land||'1')) from firmen f where
>> f.typlist='Redaktion';
>>  count
>> -------
>>  4944
>> (1 row)
> 
> Yeah, that does seem odd.  Could it be something like nulls in your
> data set?  just guessing really.  If you could make a small test case
> that shows it happening and allows others to reproduce it you're
> likely to get more bites.

It doesn't seem to be related to null values (which wouldn't explain it
anyway) nor to this particular field...

FAKDB=# select count(*) from firmen where bezeichnung is null;
 count 
-------
     0
(1 row)

FAKDB=# select count(distinct(f.bezeichnung)) from firmen f;
 count 
-------
 72698
(1 row)

FAKDB=# select count(distinct(f.bezeichnung||'e')) from firmen f;
 count 
-------
 72892
(1 row)

My attempts at reproducing this with a freshly created table failed, of
course.

FAKDB=# create table concattest(mytext text);
CREATE TABLE
FAKDB=# insert into concattest (mytext)
select(generate_series(1,10000)::text);
INSERT 0 10000
FAKDB=# insert into concattest (mytext)
select(generate_series(1,10000)::text);
INSERT 0 10000
FAKDB=# select count(distinct(mytext)) from concattest;
 count 
-------
 10000
(1 row)

FAKDB=# select count(distinct(mytext||'2')) from concattest;
 count 
-------
 10000
(1 row)

best,

Maximilian Tyrtania



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