Re: LIMIT clause optimization

Why? I don't understand. If I create a query and want just the first
row from it, wouldn't speed up things a lot just adding "LIMIT 1" in the
end of the query?

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:44, Holger Klawitter wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 7. Januar 2003 12:47 schrieb Felipe Schnack:
> > I was wondering... (a newbie starting to understand how to optimize
> > queries)
> > In which step of query execution the LIMIT clause is executed? I mean
> > I have a query that would return, let's say, 6 rows, but I add a "LIMIT
> > 1" in the end of it.
> > I would speed up things because I would have less data fetching from
> > the database, right?
>
> Limit kicks in quite late as it has to be done after sorting. And it is not
> recommended to use LIMIT without ORDER BY.
>
> With kind regards / mit freundlichem Gruß
> Holger Klawitter
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