Matthew Wakeling <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Very clever. Yes, that is what is happening. I'm surprised that the system > doesn't buffer the inner side to avoid having to rescan each time, but > then I guess you would have problems if the buffer grew larger than > memory. Well, it does consider adding a Materialize node for that purpose, but in this case it evidently thought a sort was cheaper. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance