From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: union vs. sort |
Date: | 2004-04-07 18:20:55 |
Message-ID: | 24947.1081362055@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:33:25AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> This isn't simply a matter of "omitting the sort".
> I didn't talk about "Append" result, but about "Unique" result. The
> ORDER BY in UNION query works with final concanated data -- that's
> right. My question is why a result from this ORDER BY is again sorted:
Oh, okay, that's just something that never got done, per this old
comment:
/*
* We set current_pathkeys NIL indicating we do not know sort
* order. This is correct when the top set operation is UNION
* ALL, since the appended-together results are unsorted even if
* the subplans were sorted. For other set operations we could be
* smarter --- room for future improvement!
*/
I've committed changes to do the right thing in CVS tip.
regards, tom lane
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