Postgres 11 – A First Look

Re:Postgres 11 – A First Look by jacques_chester on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:46AM (#18045624)

> A simple example, the performance of a simple un-indexed DISTINCT on a single string column on a single table, is still quite bad for millions of rows.

Why is this surprising?

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Re:Postgres 11 – A First Look by IshKebab on Saturday September 22, 2018 @02:30PM (#18047277)

I assume he means bad in comparison to other DBs.

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Re:Postgres 11 – A First Look by jacques_chester on Saturday September 22, 2018 @03:20PM (#18047547)

So do I. But it's a bit like criticising a car for being slow because you didn't push the accelerator pedal. That's not really the car's fault.

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