Re: Reverse Index ... how to ...

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> I'm still searching through Google and whatnot, but not finding anything off
> the bat ... is there some way of creating a 'REVERSE INDEX' on a column in a
> table?
>
> For instance, when I do a 'CLUSTER' to sort a table based on an INDEX, I'd
> like to sort it in reverse order, so would need the INDEX to go from
> 'GREATEST to LOWEST', vs 'LOWEST to GREATEST' ...

use something like
select * into new_table from old_table order by some_key desc;

>
> Thx
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Oleg
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