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PostgreSQL Fix Duplicates in Database

  • Ivan Ivanov
  • PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL Fix Duplicates in Database

This usually happens when bringing a Site from Dev to Live. There is a easy fix for this though that has never let me down.


EG: Duplicates are in Table articles. We access PostgreSQL DB with psql database_name than we execute below to get rid of the duplicates.


DELETE FROM articles a WHERE a.ctid <> (SELECT min(b.ctid) FROM articles b WHERE a.id = b.id);
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