On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Seth Ladd wrote: > >> Is there any way to speed this up, or is that DISTINCT going to keep > >> hounding me? > >> > >> I checked the mailing list, and didn't see anything like this. > >> > >> Any tips or hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help! > >> Seth > >> > >> > > Try group by instead. I think this is an old bug its fixed in > > 7.3.2 which I'm using. > > > > Peter Childs > > ` > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:express=# explain select distinct region from region; > > QUERY PLAN > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------- > > Unique (cost=0.00..4326.95 rows=9518 width=14) > > -> Index Scan using regionview_region on region > > (cost=0.00..4089.00 > > rows=95183 width=14) > > (2 rows) > > Thanks for the tip, I'll give this a shot soon. I am curious, your > example above does not use GROUP BY yet you have an INDEX SCAN. I am > using a similar query, yet I get a full table scan. I wonder how they > are different? > > I'll try the group by anyway. > Its a guess but ANALYSE might help. `
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