Re: optimizer question

> "Reinoud van Leeuwen" <reinoud(at)xs4all(dot)nl> writes:
> > I have a table that contains almost 8 milion rows. The primary key is a
> > sequence, so the index should have a good distribution. Why does the
> > optimizer refuse to use the index for getting the maximum value?
>
> The optimizer has no idea that max() has anything to do with indexes.
> You could try something like
>
> select * from tab order by foo desc limit 1;

Can we consider doing this optimization automatically?

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