diff --git a/src/gui/attributetable/qgsattributetablemodel.cpp b/src/gui/attributetable/qgsattributetablemodel.cpp
index 7c61243ded3a..aa83e0a0bb04 100644
--- a/src/gui/attributetable/qgsattributetablemodel.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/attributetable/qgsattributetablemodel.cpp
@@ -1053,9 +1053,13 @@ void QgsAttributeTableModel::prefetchSortData( const QString &expressionString,
     widgetData = getWidgetData( cache.sortFieldIndex );
   }
 
-  const QgsFeatureRequest request = QgsFeatureRequest( mFeatureRequest )
-                                    .setFlags( Qgis::FeatureRequestFlag::NoGeometry )
-                                    .setSubsetOfAttributes( cache.sortCacheAttributes );
+  QgsFeatureRequest request = QgsFeatureRequest( mFeatureRequest )
+                              .setSubsetOfAttributes( cache.sortCacheAttributes );
+
+  // If expression does not need geometry set NoGeometry flag
+  if ( !cache.sortCacheExpression.needsGeometry() )
+    request.setFlags( request.flags() | Qgis::FeatureRequestFlag::NoGeometry );
+
   QgsFeatureIterator it = mLayerCache->getFeatures( request );
 
   QgsFeature f;
@@ -1094,9 +1098,17 @@ QString QgsAttributeTableModel::sortCacheExpression( unsigned long cacheIndex )
 
 void QgsAttributeTableModel::setRequest( const QgsFeatureRequest &request )
 {
-  mFeatureRequest = request;
-  if ( mLayer && !mLayer->isSpatial() )
-    mFeatureRequest.setFlags( mFeatureRequest.flags() | Qgis::FeatureRequestFlag::NoGeometry );
+  if ( mFeatureRequest.compare( request ) )
+  {
+    mFeatureRequest = request;
+    if ( mLayer && !mLayer->isSpatial() )
+      mFeatureRequest.setFlags( mFeatureRequest.flags() | Qgis::FeatureRequestFlag::NoGeometry );
+    // Prefetch data for sorting, resetting all caches
+    for ( unsigned long i = 0; i < mSortCaches.size(); ++i )
+    {
+      prefetchSortData( sortCacheExpression( i ), i );
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 const QgsFeatureRequest &QgsAttributeTableModel::request() const
diff --git a/src/gui/attributetable/qgsdualview.cpp b/src/gui/attributetable/qgsdualview.cpp
index 837e4ffa433a..c2853ac11a35 100644
--- a/src/gui/attributetable/qgsdualview.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/attributetable/qgsdualview.cpp
@@ -419,6 +419,7 @@ void QgsDualView::setFilterMode( QgsAttributeTableFilterModel::FilterMode filter
     mFilterModel->disconnectFilterModeConnections();
 
     mMasterModel->setRequest( request );
+
     whileBlocking( mLayerCache )->setCacheGeometry( needsGeometry );
     mMasterModel->loadLayer();
   }
diff --git a/src/gui/attributetable/qgsdualview.h b/src/gui/attributetable/qgsdualview.h
index aebe05fb5292..b9ce8ff7022c 100644
--- a/src/gui/attributetable/qgsdualview.h
+++ b/src/gui/attributetable/qgsdualview.h
@@ -410,8 +410,8 @@ class GUI_EXPORT QgsDualView : public QStackedWidget, private Ui::QgsDualViewBas
     void initAttributeForm( const QgsFeature &feature );
 
     /**
-     * Initializes widgets which depend on the attributes of this layer
-     */
+      * Initializes widgets which depend on the attributes of this layer
+      */
     void columnBoxInit();
     void initLayerCache( bool cacheGeometry );
     void initModels( QgsMapCanvas *mapCanvas, const QgsFeatureRequest &request, bool loadFeatures );