Re: Slow performance on MAX(primary_key) - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Ludwig Lim wrote:

>>I have just been comparing some large table
>>performance under 7.1 using the
>>
>>    select max(primary key)from table;
>>
> 
>   Try using the following as alternative :
>   
>   SELECT primary_key
>   FROM table
>   ORDER BY primary_key desc
>   LIMIT 1;
> 
>   This should work if primary_key is indexes.
> 
>   As of now, Max() doesn't utilizes the indices hence
> it always do a sequential scan.

Thanks Ludwig,

That does help performance, but I was using a "standard"
SQL command wrapped in a VB6 ADO ODBC program.

Is this likely to be sorted in 7.2 ?
Is anyone looking at this?

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Keith Gray
Technical Services Manager
Heart Consulting Services