On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:49:29AM -0700, Simon Stanlake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a fairly large table (1 million records) with the following
> structure...
>
[snip]
Well, it's fai;rly hard to guess at questions like this unless you provide
some more details. Do you think you could post EXPLAIN outputs for both
queries?
> Is this common when you use the LIMIT clause? Is there a work around?
It shouldn't happen but something that might work is to create a cursor and
then do fetch 1;
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