"Kevin Grittner" <kgri...@mail.com> writes:
> Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> 2012/10/22 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>>> Perhaps it would be close enough to what you want to use DISTINCT ON:
>>> contrib_regression=# explain select distinct on( t <-> 'foo') *,t <-> 'foo' 
>>> from test_trgm order by t <-> 'foo' limit 10;

>> good tip - it's working

> If two or more values happen to be at exactly the same distance,
> wouldn't you just get one of them?

Yeah, that is a hazard.  I'm not sure whether <->'s results are
sufficiently quantized to make that a big problem in practice.

                        regards, tom lane


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