In the plan below, we can see that the optimizer is sorting an already sorted result. It seems to forget the sort order across the UNIQUE node. My question is, do we make any attempts in the optimizer to remember the sort order of a result, to avoid any further sorting on same sort-key? If not, can we do something about it?
postgres=# explain select * from del where ctid in ( select ('''(' || i || ',' || j || ')''')::tid from generate_series( 0, 1) s1(i), generate_series( 1, 1 ) s2(j) ); QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Merge Join (cost=177447.07..182043.29 rows=40000 width=97) Merge Cond: ((((((('''('::text || (s1.i)::text) || ','::text) || (s2.j)::text) || ')'''::text))::tid) = del.ctid) -> Sort (cost=155639.89..155739.89 rows=40000 width=8) Sort Key: (((((('''('::text || (s1.i)::text) || ','::text) || (s2.j)::text) || ')'''::text))::tid) -> Unique (cost=147032.84..152032.84 rows=40000 width=8) -> Sort (cost=147032.84..149532.84 rows=1000000 width=8) Sort Key: (((((('''('::text || (s1.i)::text) || ','::text) || (s2.j)::text) || ')'''::text))::tid) -> Nested Loop (cost=13.50..20026.00 rows=1000000 width=8) -> Function Scan on generate_series s1 (cost=0.00..12.50 rows=1000 width=4) -> Materialize (cost=13.50..23.50 rows=1000 width=4) -> Function Scan on generate_series s2 (cost=0.00..12.50 rows=1000 width=4) -> Materialize (cost=21807.19..23055.61 rows=99874 width=103) -> Sort (cost=21807.19..22056.87 rows=99874 width=103) Sort Key: del.ctid -> Seq Scan on del (cost=0.00..2586.74 rows=99874 width=103) (15 rows) Best regards, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] gmail | hotmail | indiatimes | yahoo }.com EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Mail sent from my BlackLaptop device