max / min explain

Yes there is. You can find it in the TODO list under
Performance -> Indexes
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/todo.html). It isn't
slated for the 7.1 release however.

Brent

--- adb <adb@Beast.COM> wrote:

I've noticed that select max(the_primary_key) from

some_table

does a table scan. Is there any plan to implement

max/min

calculations
using index lookups if the appropriate index exists?

Thanks,

Alex.

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