Re: bad performances using hashjoin

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Klint Gore <kg(at)kgb(dot)une(dot)edu(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
Subject: Re: bad performances using hashjoin
Date: 2005-02-21 02:01:17
Message-ID: 20287.1108951277@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Klint Gore <kg(at)kgb(dot)une(dot)edu(dot)au> writes:
> Is having an order by in a view legal?

Not according to the SQL spec, but PG has allowed it for several releases.
(The same goes for ORDER BY in a sub-select, which is actually pretty
much the same thing ...)

> If so, does it do 2 sorts when you sort by something else?

Yup. It's something you'd only want for the topmost view in a stack,
IMHO. A sort at a lower level is likely to be wasted effort.

regards, tom lane

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