> After trying both against the real tables DISTINCT ON seems to be
> about two orders of magnitude faster than the other options.

Glad it worked. It looked at least naively similar to situations I've run into 
and DISTINCT ON always helped me out. It's all the fun of GROUP BY with the 
ability to discard non-aggregate results just by screwing around with your 
sorting. Still one of my favorite tricks.

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