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From David Fetter
Subject Re: Fixing DISTINCT ON for duplicate keys
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Msg-id 20080731180238.GA24522@fetter.org
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In response to Fixing DISTINCT ON for duplicate keys  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Fixing DISTINCT ON for duplicate keys  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:38:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I looked into this trouble report:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2008-07/msg00123.php
> 
> Comments?

It seems to me that DISTINCT ON is just a special case of the more
general windowing functions
<http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg01277.php>
Harada-san has been working on.  Could these use the same machinery?

Cheers,
David.
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