Re: LIMIT clause optimization - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Holger Klawitter
Subject Re: LIMIT clause optimization
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Msg-id 200301071344.53094.lists@klawitter.de
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In response to LIMIT clause optimization  (Felipe Schnack <felipes@ritterdosreis.br>)
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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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