> Apart from avoiding views or subselects when sorting afterwards and
> putting the whole bunch in a huge SQL statement (which i'll have to
> produce on-the-fly), do you have an other alternative? 
> The 2 seconds is way to much, as the database will eventually run on a
> machine that is 10 times slower.

Something that isn't _totally_ clear is whether or not it is going to 
be possible to make use of indices in the selection.  If the postmaster 
must assemble, out of disparate sources, a large collection of data, 
the best trade-off may very well be to build the collection the best 
way the system knows how (perhaps NOT ordering this using the index you 
expect), and sort it afterwards.

Sorting doesn't tend to be grieviously expensive except when finding 
the query results is also grieviously expensive.

I think you are assuming that the query would be quicker if it used the 
sorted index; that is an assumption that should be checked at the door, 
or at least checked somewhere.
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