Re: [HACKERS] Re: Browsing the tables and why pgsql does not perform well

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: brett@abraxas.scene.com (Brett McCormick)
Cc: hannu@trust.ee, scrappy@hub.org, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-01-25T00:26:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> On Sat, 24 January 1998, at 09:36:41, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> > The main problem is that PostgreSQL does not use index for sorting and
> > thus really does a
> > "copy" of the whole table and then sorts it before it can use a few rows
> > from the beginning.
> > 
> > Using indexes for sorting as well as selecting is on the TODO list, but
> > seems to be not very high priority.
> 
> It doesn't seem like it would be very difficult -- I'd be happy to
> tackle it if given some pointers in the right direction (I am a newbie
> pgsql-hacker and I'm looking for work!  give me some!!)
> 

It is so complicated, I can not even suggest where to start.

-- 
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us