On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Mike Mascari wrote:
> Tim Perdue wrote:
> >
> > This is a *big* help.
> >
> > Yes, the table is approx 10-12GB in size and running your length() and
> > update queries is going to take a lifetime, since it will require a
> > calculation on 4 million rows.
> >
> > This doesn't address the serious performance problem I'm finding in
> > 7.0.2 for a multi-key select/order by/limit/offset query, which I sent
> > in a separate email.
> >
> > Tim
>
> If I recall correctly, Marc experienced similar performance
> differences with UDM search after upgrading. The optimizer was
> redesigned to be smarter about using indexes with both order by
> and limit. Tom Lane, of course, knows all there is to know on
> this. All I can ask is standard issue precursor to optimizer
> questions:
it was a problem with v7.0 that Tom provided a work around for, but I'm
99% certain that the work around was included in v7.0.1 ...