From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Cc: email lists <lists@darrenmackay.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: query not using index for descending records?
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:01:43 +0200 (EET)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401291657210.10019-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040129140655.GA14885@wolff.to>
O kyrios Bruno Wolff III egrapse stis Jan 29, 2004 :
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 15:29:11 +0200,
> Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
> > O kyrios Bruno Wolff III egrapse stis Jan 29, 2004 :
> >
> > As i see there was a thread
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-05/msg00762.php
> > dealing with this issue, assuming the "correct" order by
> > should be "order by datetime ASC, id DESC".
>
> So you really didn't want them in the reverse order?
I am not the initiator of this thread,
i was just lurking :)
>
> > Do you know of any progress for declaring the direction of each
> > column in a multicolumn index?
>
> If you are using 7.4 you can use a functional index to get around this.
> Assuming id is a numeric type, you can make an index on datetime and
> (-id) and sort by datetime, -id and the index should get used.
>
> This should still get fixed at some point, as this trick doesn't work
> for types for which the - operator exists. But I haven't heard of
> anyone working on it for 7.5, so don't expect a real fix any time soon.
>
It would be nice to have this feature for varchar as well.
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