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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Organization: Archonet Ltd
To: Keith Gray <keith@heart.com.au>
Subject: Re: Slow performance on MAX(primary_key)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 09:26:52 +0000
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On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 12:46 am, Keith Gray wrote:
> Getting MIN() adn MAX() seems fairly trivial to me.
>
> When is on an index or more importantly Primary
> Key it must be a common SQL.
>
> Would it be possible in the code to look at
> the field in MIN() or MAX() and if it is
> indexed use a similar method to the suggested
> SQL work around?
>
> Can I help this to happen?

Subscribe to pgsql-hackers and talk through a proposed hack there. The=20
developers always seem happy to receive contributions (you've just got to=
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look at the contrib folder for evidence).

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  Richard Huxton