Re: Index not being used in MAX function (7.2.3)

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:21:00PM +0200, Paulo Jan wrote:
>     It's a btree, but anyway, I see that others have already answered my
> question. So it's a "feature" and not a bug? Hrmpf.
>     (BTW, the code I was running wasn't written by me; it was part of
> Phorum, a PHP web posting board application. I'll try to patch it to
> make it use "SELECT id... ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1" and see how it goes).

Not to drag this out further, but you might want to hold off on that
patch. 7.4 is supposed to use indexes for max/min.
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