Kazuho at Work: Using Top N Sort on MySQLOne of the best practices on using MySQL is to avoid filesort. However there are cases where it is inevitable (e.g. ordering the result of fulltext search by modification date), and although in most cases we only the top N rows of sorted resultset are needed, MySQL does not implement top N sort. After wondering for couple of months if I should hack the MySQL core to implement top-N-sort, today I d
