Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:23:28 +0200, > Albe Laurenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In order to (efficiently) process a GROUP BY clause, you need a >> total ordering on the data type that you group by, i.e. an ordering >> such that for any two data x and y you have either x < y or x > x >> or x = y.
> An equality operator is good enough if the number of unique groups isn't too > large, so that a hash aggregate plan works efficiently. Doesn't help for the case at hand, since point_eq isn't marked hashable either. It would be good to fix things so that the system doesn't insist on having the sorting option available, though. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly