* Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> [... thinks for awhile ...]  It seems possible that they may use sort
> code that knows it is performing a DISTINCT operation and discards
> duplicates on sight.  Given that there are only 534 distinct values,
> the sort would easily stay in memory if that were happening.

Could this optimization be added to PostgreSQL?  It sounds like a very
reasonable thing to do.  Hopefully there wouldn't be too much complexity
needed to add it.

        Stephen

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