Re: Slow performance on MAX(primary_key)

On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 12:46 am, Keith Gray wrote:
> Getting MIN() adn MAX() seems fairly trivial to me.
>
> When is on an index or more importantly Primary
> Key it must be a common SQL.
>
> Would it be possible in the code to look at
> the field in MIN() or MAX() and if it is
> indexed use a similar method to the suggested
> SQL work around?
>
> Can I help this to happen?

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  Richard Huxton