On Friday, October 05, 2012 05:31:43 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakre...@gmail.com> writes: > > Presumably something like this?: > > maciek=# CREATE TABLE test AS SELECT g, random() FROM > > generate_series(1,1000) g; > > CREATE > > maciek=# EXPLAIN DELETE FROM test USING (SELECT g FROM test ORDER BY > > ctid) x where x.g = test.g; > > There's no guarantee that the planner won't re-sort the rows coming from > the sub-select, unfortunately. More often than not you can prevent the planner from doing that by putting a OFFSET 0 in the query. Not 100% but better than nothing.
We really need ORDER BY for DML. Andres -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
