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Backpatch FAQs to 8.1.X.

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<H1>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL</H1>
<P>Last updated: Wed Apr 12 16:03:39 EDT 2006</P>
<P>Last updated: Thu Apr 13 08:20:04 EDT 2006</P>
<P>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A href=
"mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</A>)
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Bowman, Judith S., et al., Addison-Wesley. Others like <I>The
Complete Reference SQL</I>, Groff et al., McGraw-Hill.</P>
<P>There is also a nice tutorial at <A href=
"http://www.intermedia.net/support/sql/sqltut.shtm">http://www.intermedia.net/support/sql/sqltut.shtm,</A>
at <A href=
"http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/graeme_birchall/HTM_COOK.HTM">
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/graeme_birchall/HTM_COOK.HTM,</A>
and at <A href=
"http://sqlcourse.com/">http://sqlcourse.com.</A></P>
<P>There are also many nice tutorials available online:
<UL>
<LI> <A href="http://www.intermedia.net/support/sql/sqltut.shtm">http://www.intermedia.net/support/sql/sqltut.shtm</A>
</LI>
<LI>
<A href="http://sqlcourse.com/">http://sqlcourse.com</A>
</LI>
<LI>
<A href="http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp">http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp</A>
</LI>
<LI><A href=
"http://mysite.verizon.net/Graeme_Birchall/id1.html">http://mysite.verizon.net/Graeme_Birchall/id1.html</A>
</LI>
</UL>
<H3 id="item1.12">1.12) How do I submit a patch or join the development
team?</H3>
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<P>Indexes are normally not used for <SMALL>ORDER BY</SMALL> or to
perform joins. A sequential scan followed by an explicit sort is
usually faster than an index scan of a large table.</P>
usually faster than an index scan of a large table.
However, <SMALL>LIMIT</SMALL> combined with <SMALL>ORDER BY</SMALL>
often will use an index because only a small portion of the table
is returned.</P>