Re: [SQL] Re: [HACKERS] DISTINCT ON: speak now or forever hold your peace

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > In short, it's not clear to me that supporting DISTINCT ON is a good use
> > of our limited resources.  I'm willing to pull it out, but not to fix it.
> > Does someone else want to take responsibility for it?
> 
> OK, we can disable it and put it on the TODO list.  It is already there.
> 

Am I wrong or can DISTINCT ON not be rewritten in terms of GROUP BY in all
cases?

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