Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> As far as the "desc" point goes, the problem is that mergejoins aren't
> capable of dealing with backward sort order, so a merge plan isn't
> considered for that case (or at least, it would have to have a sort
> after it, which pretty much defeats the point for a fast-start plan).
> I have some ideas about fixing this but it won't happen before 8.2.

Of course in this case assuming "id" is an integer column you can just sort by
-id instead.

-- 
greg


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