Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] 7.0 weirdness

2000-05-31 Thread Jeff MacDonald
thanks for the hlep guys.. for those that are curious, the distinct is tehr cause it's someone elses code that i'm workig on .. :) have to kick out the bug's// jeff On Tue, 30 May 2000, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Jeff MacDonald: > > gid is unique.. it's a serial.. > > > Then there is

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] 7.0 weirdness

2000-05-30 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jeff MacDonald: > gid is unique.. it's a serial.. > Then there is no point in using "DISTINCT" in the first place, is there? > funny thing is tho this worked on 6.5 It happened to work because your gid is unique. But in the general case, it can't work. Consider this table: gid created X