DISTINCT -> GROUP BY

Folks,

I've noticed that queries of the form

SELECT DISTNCT foo, bar, baz
FROM quux
WHERE ...

perform significantly worse than the equivalent using GROUP BY.

SELECT foo, bar, baz
FROM quux
WHERE ...
GROUP BY foo, bar, baz

Where would I start looking in order to make them actually equivalent
from the planner's point of view? Also, would back-patching this make
sense? It doesn't change any APIs, but it does make some queries go
faster.

Cheers,
David.
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