2010/12/12 pasman pasmaÅski <pasman.p@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> UNION will remove all duplicates, so that the result additionally requires to
>> be sorted.
>
>>Right, to avoid the SORT and UNIQUE - operation you can use UNION ALL
>
>
> by the way maybe apply hashing to calculate UNION be better ?
The planner already considers such plans.
rhaas=# explain select a from generate_series(1,100) a union select a
from generate_series(1,100) a;
QUERY PLAN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HashAggregate (cost=45.00..65.00 rows=2000 width=4)
-> Append (cost=0.00..40.00 rows=2000 width=4)
-> Function Scan on generate_series a (cost=0.00..10.00
rows=1000 width=4)
-> Function Scan on generate_series a (cost=0.00..10.00
rows=1000 width=4)
(4 rows)
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