Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thinks: Why not just sort all of the time and skip the debate entirely?
The sort is demonstrably a loser for smaller indexes. Admittedly, if the index is small then the sort can't cost all that much, but if the (correct) threshold is some large fraction of shared_buffers then it could still take awhile on installations with lots-o-buffers. The other side of that coin is that it's not clear this is really worth arguing about, much less exposing a separate parameter for. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches