https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21675

--- Comment #3 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> 2011-07-04 09:45:28 
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(In reply to comment #2)
> Why would sorting by page name be needed? A filter to consider only parts of
> all pages, in this case Subpages of a specific name, seems like a reasonable
> request.
Sorting by page name is needed because that's the way how database indexing
works. Doing a prefix filter on the page name while sorting by timestamp is
guaranteed to be inefficient on large tables. It's impossible to add an index
that will optimize that.

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