Demitri Muna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 15 Jan 2007, at 16:21, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It looks like spview is a view with an embedded ORDER BY?  IIRC that
>> prevents any meaningful optimization of joins to it --- and
>> WHERE-IN-sub-SELECT is a kind of join.

> Thanks for the pointer Tom; removing the ORDER BY from the view did  
> the trick. Is there a reason that the sorting can't be done after the  
> selection?

Well, it'd require major revisions to the planner, and it'd break
various queries that depend on the planner honoring sub-select ORDER BY
(people use that to guarantee the order in which values are fed to
custom aggregates, for instance).

                        regards, tom lane

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