On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 18:23:56 -0500,
  Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> It seems like this should be an important optimization given the number of
> applications that request max(foo) in a broken attempt to implement sequences.
> Occasionally it's not even a broken attempt too.

This has been discussed on the mailing lists many times. You can rewrite
the queries using order by and limit clauses if the column is appropiately
indexed.

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