Re: Reverse Key Index

On 25.02.2015 23:31, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 02/14/2015 10:35 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
>> Thanks for the immediate reply.
>>
>> I understand the use case is quite limited.
>>
>> On the other hand, I see potential when it comes to applications which
>> use PostgreSQL. There, programmers would have to change a lot of code to
>> tweak existing (and more importantly working) queries to hash/reverse an
>> id column first. Using ORMs would make this change even more painful and
>> maybe even impossible.
>>
>> When reading
>> https://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/introduction-to-reverse-key-indexes-part-i/
>> carefully, it also seems to work with index scan partially in case of
>> equality comparisons.
> Seems like a good use for SP-GiST. Go for it!
>

I just thought about btree indexes here mainly because they well-known
and well-used in ORM frameworks. Considering the documentation and
third-party posts on GiST and btree_gist, at least to me, it seems as if
people would not want to use that for integers; which in turn is the
main use-case scenario for reverse key indexes.

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