Re: Additional select fields in a GROUP BY

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vitaly Belman <vitalyb(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Additional select fields in a GROUP BY
Date: 2004-06-13 17:59:24
Message-ID: 26742.1087149564@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Vitaly Belman <vitalyb(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Notice that the GROUP BY items added the following to the plan:

> -> Sort (cost=10454.67..10600.83 rows=58466 width=47)
> Sort Key: s.series_id, s.series_name, s.series_picture

Oh, I see: in the first case you need no sort at all because the output
of the indexscan is already known to be sorted by s.series_id. I was
thinking of a sort with more or fewer sort columns, but that's not the
issue here.

regards, tom lane

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