diff --git a/adminSiteServer/apiRouter.ts b/adminSiteServer/apiRouter.ts
index 5666f90faca..a88f84b82ff 100644
--- a/adminSiteServer/apiRouter.ts
+++ b/adminSiteServer/apiRouter.ts
@@ -2423,9 +2423,16 @@ apiRouter.put("/deploy", async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
     triggerStaticBuild(res.locals.user, "Manually triggered deploy")
 })
 
-apiRouter.get("/gdocs", async () =>
-    Gdoc.find({ relations: ["tags"], order: { updatedAt: "DESC" } })
-)
+apiRouter.get("/gdocs", async () => {
+    // orderBy was leading to a sort buffer overflow (ER_OUT_OF_SORTMEMORY) with MySQL's default sort_buffer_size
+    // when the posts_gdocs table got larger than 9MB, so we sort in memory
+    return Gdoc.find({ relations: ["tags"] }).then((gdocs) =>
+        gdocs.sort((a, b) => {
+            if (!a.updatedAt || !b.updatedAt) return 0
+            return b.updatedAt.getTime() - a.updatedAt.getTime()
+        })
+    )
+})
 
 apiRouter.get("/gdocs/:id", async (req, res) => {
     const id = req.params.id
diff --git a/db/migration/1695651135934-IndexUpdatedAt.ts b/db/migration/1695651135934-IndexUpdatedAt.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bda83685700
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migration/1695651135934-IndexUpdatedAt.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import { MigrationInterface, QueryRunner } from "typeorm"
+
+export class IndexUpdatedAt1695651135934 implements MigrationInterface {
+    public async up(queryRunner: QueryRunner): Promise<void> {
+        queryRunner.query(
+            `ALTER TABLE posts_gdocs ADD INDEX idx_updatedAt (updatedAt);`
+        )
+    }
+
+    public async down(queryRunner: QueryRunner): Promise<void> {
+        queryRunner.query(
+            `ALTER TABLE posts_gdocs DROP INDEX idx_updatedAt (updatedAt);`
+        )
+    }
+}