How to select from two columns such that each value is seen only once?
For example. From this table:
Column A Column B
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02131d36-06cc-408e-9e40-1de65fbf37f4 7495fc05-e244-426c-bdae-a5ee121be510
11c32339-1b77-46e1-9215-0b1d4ec0b1d3 7495fc05-e244-426c-bdae-a5ee121be510
39cb3ebd-bb7f-4023-ab44-65a0f3e4d6d2 7b9fb1b0-61d4-4424-af83-33b1b7e77bc1
39cb3ebd-bb7f-4023-ab44-65a0f3e4d6d2 7495fc05-e244-426c-bdae-a5ee121be510
94e66d74-f0ce-472b-ad68-a98e267038b8 7495fc05-e244-426c-bdae-a5ee121be510
ab8130c7-e6a3-46cc-9ebc-0f8aca698169 7b9fb1b0-61d4-4424-af83-33b1b7e77bc1
ab8130c7-e6a3-46cc-9ebc-0f8aca698169 7495fc05-e244-426c-bdae-a5ee121be510
94e66d74-f0ce-472b-ad68-a98e267038b8 7b9fb1b0-61d4-4424-af83-33b1b7e77bc1
02131d36-06cc-408e-9e40-1de65fbf37f4 c597af82-58d5-4630-87e5-939898cc68ed
11c32339-1b77-46e1-9215-0b1d4ec0b1d3 c597af82-58d5-4630-87e5-939898cc68ed
39cb3ebd-bb7f-4023-ab44-65a0f3e4d6d2 c597af82-58d5-4630-87e5-939898cc68ed
ab8130c7-e6a3-46cc-9ebc-0f8aca698169 c597af82-58d5-4630-87e5-939898cc68ed
94e66d74-f0ce-472b-ad68-a98e267038b8 c597af82-58d5-4630-87e5-939898cc68ed
Pull out this (both A and B distinct):
02131d36-06cc-408e-9e40-1de65fbf37f4 7495fc05-e244-426c-bdae-a5ee121be510
ab8130c7-e6a3-46cc-9ebc-0f8aca698169 7b9fb1b0-61d4-4424-af83-33b1b7e77bc1
94e66d74-f0ce-472b-ad68-a98e267038b8 c597af82-58d5-4630-87e5-939898cc68ed
I know there's a few combinations possible, I want any one of them but not all of them.
The table is made from a subset of cartesian product of distinct values of B and distinct values of A.
I have been meddling with window functions and group by's and have not gotten it to work yet.
using window functions:
t=# create table so182(a text,b text);
CREATE TABLE
Time: 23.926 ms
t=# copy so182 from stdin delimiter ' ';
t=# select distinct first_value(a) over (partition by b),b from so182;
first_value | b
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02131d36-06cc-408e-9e40-1de65fbf37f4 | 7495fc05-e244-426c-bdae-a5ee121be510
11c32339-1b77-46e1-9215-0b1d4ec0b1d3 | c597af82-58d5-4630-87e5-939898cc68ed
39cb3ebd-bb7f-4023-ab44-65a0f3e4d6d2 | 7b9fb1b0-61d4-4424-af83-33b1b7e77bc1
(3 rows)
distinct on:
t=# select distinct on (b) b,a from so182;
b | a
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7495fc05-e244-426c-bdae-a5ee121be510 | 02131d36-06cc-408e-9e40-1de65fbf37f4
7b9fb1b0-61d4-4424-af83-33b1b7e77bc1 | 39cb3ebd-bb7f-4023-ab44-65a0f3e4d6d2
c597af82-58d5-4630-87e5-939898cc68ed | 11c32339-1b77-46e1-9215-0b1d4ec0b1d3
(3 rows)
Time: 0.263 ms