postgresql - Find rows with multiple duplicate fields with Active Record, Rails & Postgres

Question

What is the best way to find records with duplicate values across multiple columns using Postgres, and Activerecord?

I found this solution here:

User.find(:all, :group => [:first, :email], :having => "count(*) > 1" )

But it doesn't seem to work with postgres. I'm getting this error:

PG::GroupingError: ERROR: column "parts.id" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function

Answer 1

Tested & Working Version

User.select(:first,:email).group(:first,:email).having("count(*) > 1")

Also, this is a little unrelated but handy. If you want to see how times each combination was found, put .size at the end:

User.select(:first,:email).group(:first,:email).having("count(*) > 1").size

and you'll get a result set back that looks like this:

{[nil, nil]=>512,
 ["Joe", "[email protected]"]=>23,
 ["Jim", "[email protected]"]=>36,
 ["John", "[email protected]"]=>21}

Thought that was pretty cool and hadn't seen it before.

Credit to Taryn, this is just a tweaked version of her answer.