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Indexing Order By columns

Hi all,
Can it speed things up to index the order by columns?

Thanks.
Hadley

Nov 23 '05 #1
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Certainly.
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Nov 23 '05 #2
On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 16:30, Hadley Willan wrote:
Hi all,
Can it speed things up to index the order by columns?


Yes, note that you need to index on what function you might be sorting
by as well:

create index test_dx on test (lower(name));

will allow indexes to be used on an order by lower(name)
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