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From felix@crowfix.com
Subject Re: Generic Q about max(id) vs ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 1 -- SOLVED
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Msg-id 20051024232157.GA12734@crowfix.com
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In response to Re: Generic Q about max(id) vs ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 1  (Alex Turner <armtuk@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:14:43PM -0400, Alex Turner wrote:
> I believe based on semi-recent posts that MIN and MAX are now treated
> as special cases in 8.1, and are synonymous with select id order by id
> desc limit 1 etc..

Aha!  I looked it up in the release notes, you are right.  I had never
thought they would not be special cased.

Thanks.

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