Re: Group by more efficient than distinct? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Thomas Pundt
Subject Re: Group by more efficient than distinct?
Date
Msg-id 200804181025.04277.mlists@rp-online.de
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In response to Group by more efficient than distinct?  (Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On Freitag, 18. April 2008, Francisco Reyes wrote:
| I am trying to get a distinct set of rows from 2 tables.
| After looking at someone else's query I noticed they were doing a group by
| to obtain the unique list.
|
| After comparing on multiple machines with several tables, it seems using
| group by to obtain a distinct list is substantially faster than using
| select distinct.
|
| Is there any dissadvantage of using "group by" to obtain a unique list?

Searching the archives suggests that the code related to "group by" is much
newer than the one related to "distinct" and thus might benefit from more
optimization paths.

Ciao,
Thomas

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