On Wednesday 23. May 2007 16:31, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: >I've also tried: > >pgslekt=> create index last_edit_key on persons(last_edit); > >But that doesn't make any difference.
But this one did: pgslekt=> create index last_edited_persons_key on persons(last_edit,person_id); CREATE INDEX pgslekt=> explain select person_id, last_edit from persons order by last_edit desc, person_id desc limit 50; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------- Limit (cost=0.00..3.81 rows=50 width=8) -> Index Scan Backward using last_edited_persons_key on persons (cost=0.00..1230.10 rows=16123 width=8) (2 rows) Doh ... -- Leif Biberg Kristensen | Registered Linux User #338009 http://solumslekt.org/ | Cruising with Gentoo/KDE My Jazz Jukebox: http://www.last.fm/user/leifbk/ ---------------------------(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