Mike,
> Just out of curiosity, anybody with any ideas on what happens to this
> query when the limit is 59626? It's as though 59626 = infinity?
I'd suspect that this size has something to do with your system resources.
have you tried this test on other hardware?
BTW, my experience is that Celerons are dog-slow at anything involveing large
or complex queries. Something to do with the crippled cache, I think.
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
