On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Dave Johansen <davejohansen(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I also just noticed that an ORDER BY x LIMIT n optimization is not pushed
> down through the UNION ALL as well. I understand that this may be a little
> trickier because the ORDER BY and LIMIT would need to be applied to the
> subqueries and then re-applied after the APPEND,
PostgreSQL 9.1 will know how to do this, FWIW.
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