Re: Graphical explain plan sometimes shows "using" for the index name

Is this still present in the latest version of PgAdmin?  v1.6.2 is the 
current stable version.

Regards,

Andy.


O'Shea, Brendan wrote:
> This is a bug in the graphical explain plan in the pgAdmin III Query
> tool.  In the graphical explain plan if your query is ordering with the
> help of an index and the order is "Descending" then the graphical
> explain plan just says "using" as the index name.  If the sort order is
> ascending then the correct index name is displayed.  Here are the
> relevant lines from the textual output from explain:
>
>
> DESC
>         ->  Index Scan Backward using idx_name on table_name
> ASC
>         ->  Index Scan using idx_name on table_name
>
> This may be because the code for getting the index name is grabbing the
> 4th word and does not check to see if the word "Backward" was added to
> the line, in which case the 5th word should be used.
>
> My Environment:
> pgAdmin III 1.4.3
> Default config, downloaded precomplied binary for windows
> Windows XP
> Postgresql 8.1.4
>
>
> To reproduce the problem is simple, just be sure to order by an indexed
> column and then click the Explain Query button:
>
> select * from table_name order by indexed_col  asc limit 1
> select * from table_name order by indexed_col desc limit 1
>
>
> I did a mailing list search but didn't see anyone else reporting this.
> If it's a newly found bug then I'd greatly appreciate it if someone
> could fix this.  I use the graphical query explain tool a lot, I find it
> to be very useful when designing new queries.
>
> Thanks,
> Brendan
>
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