Re: [HACKERS] Why is sorting on two columns so slower than sortingon one column?

2010-12-23 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:19:46PM +0800, Li Jie wrote: Hi Ken, Thanks for your tips! Yes it is the case, and I run another query sorting on the second column whose values are random. postgres=# explain analyze select * from big_wf order by id;

Re: [HACKERS] Why is sorting on two columns so slower than sortingon one column?

2010-12-23 Thread Li Jie
, December 23, 2010 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Why is sorting on two columns so slower than sortingon one column? On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:33:12AM -0500, Jie Li wrote: Hi, Here is the test table, postgres=# \d big_wf Table public.big_wf Column | Type | Modifiers