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Postgres Query Sorting Traps
- A query in an AWS RDS based Postgres database was experiencing request timeouts with a limit of 20 rows.
- The query was inefficient due to an ORDER BY clause on a non-indexed text column.
- The issue was resolved by changing the ORDER BY clause to use the primary key instead.
- Lessons learned highlight the impact of sorting on non-indexed columns and the importance of optimizing queries with appropriate indexing.
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