Re: ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DISTINCT

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: marcin mank <marcin(dot)mank(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DISTINCT
Date: 2009-08-02 17:55:08
Message-ID: 162867790908021055p7112e0a5t63a1ae2fac918d6c@mail.gmail.com
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2009/8/2 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> There wasn't any response to this comment:
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> marcin mank <marcin(dot)mank(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> ALTER COLUMN SET DISTINCT
>> feels like adding a unique constraint.
>
>> ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTICS DISTINCT ?
>> ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTICS NDISTINCT ?
>
> I don't want to add a new keyword, but "SET STATISTICS DISTINCT" would
> be an easy change.  Comments?

It's much better than SET DISTINCT.

Pavel

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