Re: Multicolumn indexes and ORDER BY - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Multicolumn indexes and ORDER BY
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Msg-id 20040616061213.GA3567@svana.org
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In response to Multicolumn indexes and ORDER BY  (Jernej Kos <kostko@jweb-network.net>)
Responses Re: Multicolumn indexes and ORDER BY  (Jernej Kos <kostko@jweb-network.net>)
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:12:26AM +0200, Jernej Kos wrote:
> I have a multicolumn index on two columns. If i use the columns in ORDER BY
> like this:
>   ORDER BY col1, col2;
>
> The index is used. But, if one column is sorted DESC it is not used:
>   ORDER BY col1 DESC, col2;
>
> How can i make this work ?

Try:

ORDER BY col1 DESC, col2 desc;

Hope this helps,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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