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Redesign DISTINCT ON as discussed in pgsql-sql 1/25/00: syntax is now

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SELECT DISTINCT ON (expr [, expr ...]) targetlist ...
and there is a check to make sure that the user didn't specify an ORDER BY
that's incompatible with the DISTINCT operation.
Reimplement nodeUnique and nodeGroup to use the proper datatype-specific
equality function for each column being compared --- they used to do
bitwise comparisons or convert the data to text strings and strcmp().
(To add insult to injury, they'd look up the conversion functions once
for each tuple...)  Parse/plan representation of DISTINCT is now a list
of SortClause nodes.
initdb forced by querytree change...
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Tom Lane
2000-01-27 18:11:50 +00:00
parent 3f0074e403
commit dd979f66be
32 changed files with 638 additions and 576 deletions
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@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ select * from pg_database where nonesuch = pg_database.datname;
select * from pg_database where pg_database.datname = nonesuch;
-- bad select distinct on syntax, distinct attribute missing
select distinct on foobar from pg_database;
-- bad select distinct on syntax, distinct attribute missing
select distinct on (foobar) from pg_database;
-- bad select distinct on syntax, distinct attribute not in target list
select distinct on foobar * from pg_database;
select distinct on (foobar) * from pg_database;
--