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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly