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diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt index c163dc9f2e..4ebe565ae8 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt @@ -1043,6 +1043,17 @@ subclass:: If you need to specify a dynamic order (for example depending on user or language) you can implement a :meth:`~ModelAdmin.get_ordering` method. + .. admonition:: Performance considerations with ordering and sorting + + To ensure a deterministic ordering of results, the changelist adds + ``pk`` to the ordering if it can't find a single or unique together set + of fields that provide total ordering. + + For example, if the default ordering is by a non-unique ``name`` field, + then the changelist is sorted by ``name`` and ``pk``. This could + perform poorly if you have a lot of rows and don't have an index on + ``name`` and ``pk``. + .. attribute:: ModelAdmin.paginator The paginator class to be used for pagination. By default, |