> Your ideas for selecting based on the date are intriguing, however the
> schema of the db was not done with that in mind. Everyone thinks I'm a
> nut when I say this, but the date is stored in a char(14) field in
> gregorian format: 19990101125959
Perfect, that makes it a lot easier:
1. index on (mail_list, mail_date)
2. SELECT mailid, mail_date, mail_is_followup, mail_from, mail_subject FROM mail_archive WHERE mail_list=35 AND
mail_datebetween '20000100' and '20000199' ORDER BY mail_list DESC, mail_date DESC LIMIT 26 OFFSET 0;
Note the appended 00 and 99 which is generic for all months.
Andreas
