From: Glenn Sullivan <glenn.sullivan@varianinc.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Performance of ORDER BY
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:12:03 -0700
Message-ID: <4575A863.6040504@varianinc.com> (raw)
I am wanting some ideas about improving the performance of ORDER BY in
our use. I have a DB on the order of 500,000 rows and 50 columns.
The results are always sorted with ORDER BY. Sometimes, the users end up
with a search that matches most of the rows. In that case, I have a
LIMIT 5000 to keep the returned results under control. However, the
sorting seems to take 10-60 sec. If I do the same search without the
ORDER BY, it takes about a second.
I am currently on version 8.0.1 on Windows XP using a Dell Optiplex 280
with 1Gb of ram. I have set sort_mem=100000 set.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Glenn
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