From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Gary Chambers <gwchamb@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 8.4.1 distinct query WITHOUT order by
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:23:11 -0700
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Gary Chambers <gwchamb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yeah, if you're code base is that fragile, bandaging it up by jumping
>>> through hoops in pgsql is just putting off the inevitable when it (the
>>> code base) has to get recompiled someday anyway.
>>
>> I appreciate (and agree with) the concern about the fragility of the
>> codebase. The maintainer knows that anything except adding ORDER BY
>> is a kludge.
>>
>> Now, the aforementioned notwithstanding...
>
> Replacing the table with a view should work. Just be sure to make
> insert rules if you need it to be insertable by other parts of the app
> I guess.
Actually, since the order by in the view will be applied before the
hash_agg and stuff, I don't think it will work.
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