Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 335F71337B6D for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:24:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76624-05 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:23:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from news.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.72]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF741337B39 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:23:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: from news.hub.org ([200.46.204.72]) by news.hub.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9PANtxb094702 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:23:55 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from news@news.hub.org) Received: (from news@localhost) by news.hub.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o9PA7F0Z052777 for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:07:15 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from news) From: Gaetano Mendola X-Newsgroups: pgsql.performance Subject: Re: Useless sort by Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:09:28 +0200 Organization: Hub.Org Networking Services Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4CC55758.6030509@gmail.com> References: <12103.1284389088@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4C8E4982.70004@gmail.com> <14518.1284396487@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20100922230531.ALE43726@ms14.lnh.mail.rcn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org To: gnuoytr@rcn.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101006 Thunderbird/3.1.5 In-Reply-To: <20100922230531.ALE43726@ms14.lnh.mail.rcn.net> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.593 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.8, RDNS_NONE=0.793 X-Spam-Level: * X-Archive-Number: 201010/395 X-Sequence-Number: 40813 On 09/23/2010 05:05 AM, gnuoytr@rcn.com wrote: > Spoken like a dyed in the wool COBOL coder. The RM has no need for order; it's set based. I've dabbled in PG for some time, and my sense is increasingly that PG developers are truly code oriented, not database (set) oriented. That's a bit harsh. Your sense if fooling you. Regards Gaetano Mendola