Re: Index Choice Problem

Unfortunately I'm using 8.0.4 and this is for a government website, I only
get so many maintenance windows. Is this the only workaround for this issue?

I did make a test index as you described on my test box and tried the query
and it used the new index. However, ORDER BY forum_id then last_post_time is
simply not the intended sorting order. (Though I'm considering just
SELECTing the topic_last_post_time field and resorting the results in the
script if this is the only workaround).

- Adam

On 2/18/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Adam Alkins <adam(dot)alkins(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > SELECT t.topic_id
> > FROM phpbb_topics AS t
> > WHERE t.forum_id = 71
> > AND t.topic_id NOT IN (205026,
> 29046, 144569, 59780, 187424,
> > 138635, 184973, 170551, 22419, 181690, 197254, 205130)
> > ORDER BY
> t.topic_last_post_time DESC
> > LIMIT 23 OFFSET 0
>
> If you're using 8.1, you'd probably find that an index on (forum_id,
> topic_last_post_time) would work nicely for this. You could use it
> in prior versions too, but you'd have to spell the ORDER BY rather
> strangely:
> ORDER BY forum_id desc, topic_last_post_time desc
> The reason for this trickery is to get the planner to realize that
> the index order matches the ORDER BY ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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