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Tom Lane db436adf76 Major revision of sort-node handling: push knowledge of query
sort order down into planner, instead of handling it only at the very top
level of the planner.  This fixes many things.  An explicit sort is now
avoided if there is a cheaper alternative (typically an indexscan) not
only for ORDER BY, but also for the internal sort of GROUP BY.  It works
even when there is no other reason (such as a WHERE condition) to consider
the indexscan.  It works for indexes on functions.  It works for indexes
on functions, backwards.  It's just so cool...

CAUTION: I have changed the representation of SortClause nodes, therefore
THIS UPDATE BREAKS STORED RULES.  You will need to initdb.
1999-08-21 03:49:17 +00:00
contrib Update from Massimo 1999-06-05 20:07:54 +00:00
doc Update TODO list. 1999-08-18 15:11:52 +00:00
src Major revision of sort-node handling: push knowledge of query 1999-08-21 03:49:17 +00:00
COPYRIGHT From: David Friend <dfriend@atlsci.atlsci.com> 1997-05-11 06:18:33 +00:00
HISTORY back out last... 1999-08-02 01:42:57 +00:00
INSTALL There is one section that changed, concernign startup...the rest is just 1999-07-30 04:04:53 +00:00
README update 1999-07-18 18:27:05 +00:00
register.txt Update stuff for 6.5.1 release. 1999-07-10 16:28:02 +00:00

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PostgreSQL Data Base Management System (formerly known as Postgres, then
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This directory contains the development version of 6.6 of the PostgreSQL
database server.  The server is not ANSI SQL compliant, but it gets
closer with every release.  After you unzip and untar the distribution
file, look at file INSTALL for the installation notes and file HISTORY
for the changes.

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