Yes, you're right as usual.
I had not thought about playing with ORDER BY on a field which has only one value in the result set.
If you write it as
SELECT WHERE topic_id=2 ORDER BY topic_id DESC,id DESC.
then an index on (topic_id, id) will work fine. The mixed ASC/DESC
ordering is not compatible with the index.
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