Curious whether you benchmarked against a partial index on the sort column. For fixed-category top-K queries the planner sometimes picks it over a full index sc

Curious whether you benchmarked against a partial index on the sort column. For fixed-category top-K queries the planner sometimes picks it over a full index scan, though I've seen it regress on high-write tables due to index bloat. Did write volume factor into your test setup?