I see you have the length included.

Perhaps, UTF8 characters in one and ascii in the other?

Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Cassidy
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:27 AM
To: John Beynon; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] problem with distinct not distincting...

Are you sure that one of those entries doesn't have a trailing space?

Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Beynon
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [GENERAL] problem with distinct not distincting...

I have a pretty basic query;

select distinct on (name) name, length(name) from drugs where customer_id IS 
NOT NULL order by name;

which I'd expect to only return me a single drug name if there are duplicates, 
yet I get

name | length
==========
Roaccutane | 10
Roaccutane | 10

table encoding is UTF8...

I'm scratching my head!

Thanks,

John.


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