Re: [HACKERS] Re: Browsing the tables and why pgsql does not perform well - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Brett McCormick
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: Browsing the tables and why pgsql does not perform well
Date
Msg-id 199801242302.PAA25187@abraxas.scene.com
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In response to Re: Browsing the tables and why pgsql does not perform well  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Re: Browsing the tables and why pgsql does not perform well  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Sat, 24 January 1998, at 09:36:41, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> The main problem is that PostgreSQL does not use index for sorting and
> thus really does a
> "copy" of the whole table and then sorts it before it can use a few rows
> from the beginning.
>
> Using indexes for sorting as well as selecting is on the TODO list, but
> seems to be not very high priority.

It doesn't seem like it would be very difficult -- I'd be happy to
tackle it if given some pointers in the right direction (I am a newbie
pgsql-hacker and I'm looking for work!  give me some!!)

--brett

> OTOOH, it would be very hard for general client side tools to do without
> keyed access, so addind using indexes for sorting should be given at
> least some priority.
>
> ----------------
> Hannu Krosing
> Trust-O-Matic O�
>
> >
>

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