Re: PLEASE GOD HELP US!

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 09:14, Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:26, Shane | SkinnyCorp wrote:
>>>
>>>>Okay, just so no one posts about this again...
>>>>
>>>>the 'ORDER BY t.status=5,lastreply' clause is meant to float the threads
>>>>with a status of '5' to the top of the list... it is NOT meant to only grab
>>>>threads where the status = 5.  Oh and believe me, when I take this out of
>>>>the query, it CERTAINLY doesn't add any more than possible 1/4 of a
>>>>millesecond to the speed of the SELECT statement.
>>>
>>>
>>>Wouldn't this work just as well?
>>>
>>>SELECT * FROM thread_listing AS t ORDER BY t.status
>>>DESC,t.lastreply desc LIMIT 25 OFFSET 0
>>
>>Probably not, because I don't think he wants the other statuses to have
>>special ranking over the others, so a status=4 and status=1 row should be
>>sorted by lastreply only effectively. This is the problem of combining
>>separate status flags into a single field if you want to be doing these
>>sorts of queries.
>>
>
>
> So would a union give good performance?  Just union the first 25 or less
> with status=5 with the rest, using a 1 and 0 in each union to order by
> first?  Hopefully the indexes would then be used.

anyone seen that the OP is running the server with sequential scan disabled ?


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Gaetano Mendola