From: Sven R. Kunze <srkunze@tbz-pariv.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Reverse Key Index
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:35:05 +0100
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Thanks for the immediate reply.
I understand the use case is quite limited.
On the other hand, I see potential when it comes to applications which
use PostgreSQL. There, programmers would have to change a lot of code to
tweak existing (and more importantly working) queries to hash/reverse an
id column first. Using ORMs would make this change even more painful and
maybe even impossible.
When reading
https://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/introduction-to-reverse-key-indexes-part-i/
carefully, it also seems to work with index scan partially in case of
equality comparisons.
On 14.02.2015 19:18, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@tbz-pariv.de> writes:
>> does PostgreSQL support the concept of reverse key indexing as described
>> here? I couldn't find any documentation on this yet.
>> http://www.toadworld.com/platforms/oracle/w/wiki/11075.reverse-key-index-from-the-concept-to-interna...
> There's nothing built-in for that (and frankly, it doesn't sound useful
> enough that we'd ever add it). You could get the effect easily enough
> with an expression index on a byte-reversing function. A related thing
> that people often do is create an index on a hash function.
>
> regards, tom lane
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