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Re: Create an index with a sort condition

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On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:48:22PM -0400, Jim Nasby wrote:
> I believe he's talking about something like
> 
> CREATE INDEX books__id_title ON books(id_book, title DESC);
> 
> which of course we don't support. But you can define a custom set of  
> operators that work backwards and use those to define the index, and  
> then use them in the ORDER BY.
> 
> BTW, is there a TODO for this? Second request for it I've seen in a  
> week...

Well, if COLLATE support ever gets done, it'll fix this too and be SQL
compliant to boot. Unfortunatly I havn't had much time to work on this
recently and there hasn't been much interest externally. Last time I
was bogged down by keeping up with the number of commits to the sort
code which is ofcourse intimately related to this.

One day...
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
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