Re: Order by optimisations?

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Order by optimisations?
Date: 2005-07-15 02:39:37
Message-ID: 42D721E9.8090906@familyhealth.com.au
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>>>Does it know that the input to the sort routine is already sorted and
>>>hence is a no-op?
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>>Yes
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> No, but in most cases this will use an index and hence will assume that
> the index is responsible for ordering.
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> regards, tom lane
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