Re: Bypassing useless ORDER BY in a VIEW

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

"Robins Tharakan" <tharakan(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> If I give an ORDER BY clause in a VIEW and then use it in another query
> where the VIEW's ORDER BY is immaterial, would the planner be able to
> discard this ORDER BY clause ?

No.  That's a feature not a bug; the sorts of cases where you want an
ORDER BY in a subquery, it's because you really want those rows computed
in that order (eg you've got side-effect-causing functions reading the
results).  Postgres will never discard an ORDER BY as "immaterial".

A rule of thumb is that ORDER BY in a view is bad design, IMHO.

			regards, tom lane