David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> Additionally, it's also not that clear to me that sorting by more
> columns in the sort below the WindowAgg would always be a win over
> doing the final sort for the ORDER BY. What if the WHERE clause (that
> could not be pushed down before a join) filtered out the vast majority
> of the rows before the ORDER BY. It might be cheaper to do the sort
> then than to sort by the additional columns earlier.
That's certainly a legitimate question to ask, but I don't quite see
where you figure we'd be sorting more rows? WHERE filtering happens
before window functions, which never eliminate any rows. So it seems
like a sort just before the window functions must sort the same number
of rows as one just after them.
regards, tom lane
