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On Tue,  2 Nov 2010 10:10:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Szymon Guz <mabewlun@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On 2 November 2010 10:36, AI Rumman <rummandba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Is it possible to create an index in descending order?
> 
> > create index i on t(i desc);
> 
> Note that there is actually no point at all in such a declaration.
> The planner is perfectly capable of using backwards indexscans at
> need, so the above index doesn't do anything you couldn't do with
> a regular ascending-order index.

Cannot there be a (system/hardware) setup where there is a perceptible
performance difference between forward and backward index scans?

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Michał Politowski
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