speed this up?

Oracle 10.2.0.1.0

I have a sql that is slow to run:

create table tmp_table nologging as
(select column1 from table1 where column2 > some_value
having count(*) > 1 group by column1);

table1 is large, column2 has index on it. The count(*) value in the above query 
is quite big (typically in thousands) . Since I only need to check if the 
count(*) is large than 1, is there a way (say to use rownum somehow ) so that 
when count(*) gets up to 2, it stop counting (using stopkey), therefore I can 
have the above query run faster?

Thanks.
Guang 


      
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