> Imagine if SELECT field1, field2 FROM my_table was faster than SELECT field2, field1 FROM my_table. Why would it do that? I have no idea to this day, and I do

> Imagine if SELECT field1, field2 FROM my_table was faster than SELECT field2, field1 FROM my_table. Why would it do that? I have no idea to this day, and I don’t even want to know. > I don’t even want to know. I feel this. I'm working on a team where I have significantly more tenure at the company than the other engineers on the team, and they'll often ask me questions starting with "why". Normally, I love to encourage this -- curiosity is an amazing quality to have in coworkers. There are still some times when I just need to look at them like I'm dead inside and warn them that it's not worth their time on this earth to find out.