Re: ToDo: KNN Search should to support DISTINCT clasuse?

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> but using DISTINCT breaks KNN searching optimization
>
>> postgres=# explain select distinct nazobce, nazobce <-> 'Benešov' from
>> obce order by nazobce <-> 'Benešov' limit 10
>
> Don't hold your breath.  There are two ways the system could implement
> the DISTINCT clause: either sort and uniq, or hashaggregate.
> hashaggregate will destroy any input ordering, so there's no value in
> using the index as input.

Isn't that an implementation limitation though, rather than a
fundamental limitation?

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