Change default sort to 'id' for list task instances#64168
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For performance reason change the default sort for TIs to "-id".
Also TI ids is a
UUID7which is 'time ordered'. This means that 'recent' tasks will be first in the table which is similar in behavior.related: #62027
On the other hand this allows to leverage the index.
###Benchmark:
With 8M TIs, default query is now taking 2/2.5 seconds against 10+s before:
Before
After
Was generative AI tooling used to co-author this PR?
{pr_number}.significant.rst, in airflow-core/newsfragments. You can add this file in a follow-up commit after the PR is created so you know the PR number.