Re: [HACKERS] distinct. Is this the correct behaviour?

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 sszabo(at)bigpanda(dot)com wrote:

>
> This seems to generally work in postgres for the simple cases I tried:
> select x from foo group by x order by min(y)
>
> Now I don't know if there are any hidden gotchas in that (or wierdness
> with the spec), but it also feels better to me than using distinct in this
> case as well, because it seems to explicitly describe how you want y
> ordered.

Hey! That works! Thanks! Just checked sybase and the original query
acts identical to ours.

Vince.
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