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this was foreseen ages ago, but we didn't have enough infrastructure to do
it with reasonable speed until just now.

We punt and stick with default estimates if the subquery uses set
operations, GROUP BY, or DISTINCT, since those operations would change the
underlying column statistics (particularly, the relative frequencies of
different values) beyond recognition.  This means that the types of
sub-selects for which this improvement applies are fairly limited, since
most subqueries satisfying those restrictions would have gotten flattened
into the parent query anyway.  But it does help for some cases, such as
subqueries with ORDER BY or LIMIT.
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.