Re: weird behaviour on DISTINCT ON - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: weird behaviour on DISTINCT ON
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Msg-id 21730.1107198394@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: weird behaviour on DISTINCT ON  (Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>)
Responses Re: weird behaviour on DISTINCT ON  (Gaetano Mendola <gmendola@mbigroup.it>)
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Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com> writes:
> my warning was due the fact that in the docs is written nowhere this
> drawback.

The SELECT reference page already says that the output rows are computed
before applying ORDER BY or DISTINCT.
        regards, tom lane


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