try: select tax_code from warehouse.sec_trans group by tax_code there was a discussion about this on the pgsql-performance a while back: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-10/msg00053.php -ae On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Tony Caduto wrote:
select DISTINCT tax_code from warehouse.sec_trans We let this run for 1/2 hour or so and canceled it.Then I tried select DISTINCT ON (tax_code) tax_code from warehouse.sec_trans