Re: extending ORDER BY make query much slower

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dan Langille wrote:

> explain analyse
> SELECT element.id,
> commit_log.id AS my_commit_log_id,
> commit_log.message_id,
> to_char(commit_log.commit_date - SystemTimeAdjust(), 'DD Mon
> YYYY') AS commit_date,
> to_char(commit_log.commit_date - SystemTimeAdjust(),
> 'HH24:MI') AS commit_time,
> commit_log.committer,
> commit_log.description,
> commit_log.encoding_losses,
> commit_log.message_subject,
> element.name,
> commit_log_elements.revision_name,
> element_pathname(element.id) AS element_pathname
> FROM commit_log, commit_log_elements, element
> WHERE commit_log_elements.commit_log_id = commit_log.id
> AND commit_log_elements.element_id = element.id
> ORDER BY commit_log.commit_date DESC,
> my_commit_log_id
> LIMIT 100;

As a question, is it faster if both are marked DESC?