Re: [PERFORM] multicolumn index column order

2007-07-30 Thread Lew
valgog wrote: On Jul 25, 2:14 am, Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about two indexes, one on each column? Then the indexes will cooperate when combined in a WHERE clause. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/indexes-bitmap-scans.html I don't believe the index makes a semantic

Re: [PERFORM] multicolumn index column order

2007-07-25 Thread valgog
On Jul 25, 2:14 am, Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about two indexes, one on each column? Then the indexes will cooperate when combined in a WHERE clause. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/indexes-bitmap-scans.html I don't believe the index makes a semantic difference with

Re: [PERFORM] multicolumn index column order

2007-07-24 Thread Valentine Gogichashvili
On 7/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: valgog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. On Jul 23, 7:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: valgog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how to build an multicolumn index with one column order ASCENDING and another column order DESCENDING?

Re: [PERFORM] multicolumn index column order

2007-07-24 Thread andrew
valgog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. On Jul 23, 7:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: valgog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how to build an multicolumn index with one column order ASCENDING and another column order DESCENDING? Use 8.3 ;-) In existing releases you could fake it with

[PERFORM] multicolumn index column order

2007-07-23 Thread valgog
Hello all, how to build an multicolumn index with one column order ASCENDING and another column order DESCENDING? The use case that I have is that I use 2 column index where the first column is kind of flag and the second column is an actual ordering column. The flag should be always ordered

Re: [PERFORM] multicolumn index column order

2007-07-23 Thread Tom Lane
valgog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how to build an multicolumn index with one column order ASCENDING and another column order DESCENDING? Use 8.3 ;-) In existing releases you could fake it with a custom reverse-sorting operator class, but it's a pain in the neck to create one.

Re: [PERFORM] multicolumn index column order

2007-07-23 Thread valgog
On Jul 23, 7:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: valgog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how to build an multicolumn index with one column order ASCENDING and another column order DESCENDING? Use 8.3 ;-) In existing releases you could fake it with a custom reverse-sorting operator class,