Benjamin Arai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It appears that the ORDER BY rank operation is the slowing factor.   
> If I remove it then the query is pretty fast.  Is there another way  
> to perform ORDER BY such that it does not do a sort?

I think you misunderstood: it's not the sort that's slow, it's the
computation of the rank() values that are inputs to the sort.

                        regards, tom lane

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