On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:05:39PM +0000, peaw peaw wrote: > Oh I see. > > Since I really need this DESC badly, is it sensible to add a 3rd > column that keeps its values in reverse order(say, SomeBigInt - > value of col2) ? Then create an index on (col1,col3) and use it > without the "DESC".
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