From: | Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: DISTINCT -> GROUP BY |
Date: | 2008-06-04 12:36:41 |
Message-ID: | 8404931B-038E-4F98-98C9-BCEC81B476DF@decibel.org |
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On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:03 AM, David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 03:36:44PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> Hello David
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html
>>
>> Consider using hash buckets to do DISTINCT, rather than sorting This
>> would be beneficial when there are few distinct values. This is
>> already used by GROUP BY.
>
> It's nice to see that this is kinda on the TODO, but it doesn't
> address the question I asked, which is, "how would I get the planner
> to rewrite DISTINCTs as the equivalent GROUP BYs?" :)
IIRC, the patch to allow GROUP BY to do hashing is fairly recent...
you could probably find it in archives.
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Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
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