On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:34:38AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> writes:
> > * It's going to a lot of trouble to allow for the possibility of both
> >   unordered results and of duplicate lines.  If we disallow duplicate
> >   lines in unordered result sets, we can get a big speed gain by using
> >   hash-based comparisons.
> 
> Why not just sort the lines and compare?

Good point :)

Cheers,
David.
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