Re: Why my query not using index to sort? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Why my query not using index to sort?
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Msg-id e8f8d7d8-044b-829f-a063-cb79f6e11d2b@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: Why my query not using index to sort?  (Arup Rakshit <ar@zeit.io>)
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On 9/28/18 6:19 AM, Arup Rakshit wrote:
> Hi Ravi,
> 
> 
> Yes you are right. It seems it is doing sorting in memory by name. But I 
> have `name` column in index.

You are looking for the vessels.company_id not vessels.name so not sure 
why you expect an index lookup on name?

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arup Rakshit
> ar@zeit.io <mailto:ar@zeit.io>
> 
> 
> 
>> On 28-Sep-2018, at 6:38 PM, Ravi Krishna <srkrishna1@aol.com 
>> <mailto:srkrishna1@aol.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is there anyway, I can improve the sorting so that it can use the index ?
>>
>> Are you telling that why PG is not simply reading the data from the 
>> index (which is already in sorted
>> order)?
>>
> 


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