Hi all, I have a view v_table defined as following: select a,b,c,d,e,f from t_table sort by a,b,c; the usage pattern of this view is the following: select distinct(a) from v_table; select distinct(b) from v_table where a = "XXX"; select distinct(c) from v_table where a = "XXX" and b = "YYYY"; because of that sort in the view definition the first query above takes not less than 3 seconds. I have solved this performance issue removing the sort from the view definition and putting it in the select reducing the time from > 3secons to < 150ms. Can not the optimizer take rid of that useless sort on those kind of queries ? Regards Gaetano Mendola -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance