Re: Status of issue 4593 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 15:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> The only way to avoid this would be to lock before the sort, which could
> have the effect of locking more rows than are returned (if you also use
> LIMIT);

How would that work in the case of an index scan sort?

Regards,
    Jeff Davis