Re: big distinct clause vs. group by

Hi Vitalii,

this sounds promising, can you send me that?

Best Regards,
Uwe

2011/4/25 Віталій Тимчишин <tivv00(at)gmail(dot)com>

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> 2011/4/23 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
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>> On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Uwe Bartels <uwe(dot)bartels(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > Hi Robert,
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>> > thanks for your answer.
>> > the aggregate function I was talking about is the function I need to use
>> for the non-group by columns like min() in my example.
>> > There are of course several function to choose from, and I wanted to
>> know which causes as less as possible resources.
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>> Oh, I see. min() is probably as good as anything. You could also create a
>> custom aggregate that just always returns its first input. I've occasionally
>> wished we had such a thing as a built-in.
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> I've once done "single" grouping function - it checks that all it's input
> values are equal (non-null ones) and returns the value or raises an error if
> there are two different values.
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> Best regards, Vitalii Tymchyshyn
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> Best regards,
> Vitalii Tymchyshyn
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