W dniu 01.03.2012 12:50, Szymon Guz pisze: Hi Szymon, > If you have only 2 rows in the table, then the plan really doesn't > matter too much. Sorting two rows would be really fast :) > > Try to check it with 10k rows. It doesn't matter (in this case) how many records is in user_profile table. Planner does sorting. Here is version with more rows: $ explain (analyze,verbose,buffers) SELECT count(*) from (select * from users_profile order by id) u_p; QUERY PLAN ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aggregate (cost=1593639.92..1593639.93 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=11738.498..11738.498 rows=1 loops=1) Output: count(*) Buffers: shared hit=2499 read=41749 written=10595, temp read=17107 written=17107 -> Sort (cost=1443640.26..1468640.21 rows=9999977 width=4) (actual time=9804.461..10963.911 rows=10000000 loops=1) Output: users_profile.id Sort Key: users_profile.id Sort Method: external sort Disk: 136856kB Buffers: shared hit=2499 read=41749 written=10595, temp read=17107 written=17107 -> Seq Scan on public.users_profile (cost=0.00..144247.77 rows=9999977 width=4) (actual time=0.021..1192.202 rows=10000000 loops=1) Output: users_profile.id Buffers: shared hit=2499 read=41749 written=10595 Total runtime: 11768.199 ms (12 rows) And without "order by": $ explain (analyze,verbose,buffers) SELECT count(*) from (select * from users_profile ) u_p; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aggregate (cost=169247.71..169247.72 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=1757.613..1757.613 rows=1 loops=1) Output: count(*) Buffers: shared hit=2522 read=41726 -> Seq Scan on public.users_profile (cost=0.00..144247.77 rows=9999977 width=0) (actual time=0.032..946.166 rows=10000000 loops=1) Output: users_profile.id Buffers: shared hit=2522 read=41726 Total runtime: 1757.656 ms (7 rows) -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance