Forcing a specific order - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Martin Foster
Subject Forcing a specific order
Date
Msg-id 434C5F49.1010108@ethereal-realms.org
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Responses Re: Forcing a specific order  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
Re: Forcing a specific order  (Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>)
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This may come across as a rather odd question.   However, is there a way
to force PostgreSQL to return rows in a very specific order?  I am
currently facing running one three-way-join query which will last 50+
seconds.   Since this is a web-based application this hardly makes for a
fast browsing experience.

One solution is to break it up into more manageable pieces.   If I can
specify the sort order then I can run concurrent queries and get things
settled easily.   Otherwise I'll have to fetch for every row returned
and that seems messy and I would like to avoid it.

Any ideas?

    Martin Foster
    martin@ethereal-realms.org


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