Hello
2010/8/17 <fiala_marek@centrum.cz>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've database of lyrics and I'm using this query for suggest box.
> SELECT views, title, id FROM songs WHERE title ILIKE 'bey%' ORDER BY views DESC LIMIT 15;
> In query plan is this line: -> Seq Scan on songs (cost=0.00..11473.56 rows=5055 width=23) (actual
time=1.088..89.863rows=77 loops=1)
> it takes about 90ms
>
> but when i modify query (remove sort)
> SELECT views, title, id FROM songs WHERE title ILIKE 'bey%' LIMIT 15;
> In query plan -> Seq Scan on songs (cost=0.00..11473.56 rows=5055 width=23) (actual time=1.020..20.601 rows=15
loops=1
> seq scan takes only 20ms now, why?
>
> Or any suggestion to optimize this query?
without ORDER BY database returns first 15 rows where predicate is
true. With ORDER BY the database has to find all rows where predicate
is true and then has to sort it. So first case can be a much faster
because there are not necessary full table scan.
regards
Pavel Stehule
> In table songs are about 150.000 rows.
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> Best regards.
> Marek Fiala
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