Re: a question on SQL

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>> Ragnar, Marc, thanks so much for the help: DISTINCT ON was *exactly*
>> what I needed.
>> It's not a part of any SQL standard I know of, but does the job
>> _wonderfully_.

> It's the single most useful non-standard SQL feature postgresql has. It
> is thus simultaneously bad (from a portatbility aspect) and brilliant
> (because it's a million times easier and faster than the alternatives).

You mean second-most useful. LIMIT/OFFSET is the champion, hand down. :)

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