On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 18:23:56 -0500, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> It seems like this should be an important optimization given the number of
> applications that request max(foo) in a broken attempt to implement sequences.
> Occasionally it's not even a broken attempt too.
This has been discussed on the mailing lists many times. You can rewrite
the queries using order by and limit clauses if the column is appropiately
indexed.