Hi Paolo,

On Tue, 15. Jul 2014 at 08:50:10 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> > Yeah I'm thinking it might just be slow for something like shapefile where 
> > is there
> > no index on that column and it has to get each value to find the unique 
> > ones.  I'm
> > not looking at the code, just guessing.
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> I found it rather slow for large PostGIS tables.

As slow as

SELECT DISTINCT attribute FROM table ORDER BY attribute LIMIT 10

?


Jürgen 

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