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    Per recent discussion on -hackers, we should sometimes reorder the · 99114a24
    Neil Conway authored
    columns of the grouping clause to avoid redundant sorts. The optimizer
    is not currently capable of doing this, so this patch implements a
    simple hack in the analysis phase (transformGroupClause): if any
    subset of the GROUP BY clause matches a prefix of the ORDER BY list,
    that prefix is moved to the front of the GROUP BY clause. This
    shouldn't change the semantics of the query, and allows a redundant
    sort to be avoided for queries like "GROUP BY a, b ORDER BY b".
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