Yes, the bug is in the latest v1.6.2 as well.
I'm continuing to use the older 1.4.3 version because I like the fact
that the output pane retains column sizing when you repeatedly run the
same query.
Brendan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
> [mailto:andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:35 PM
> To: O'Shea, Brendan
> Cc: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Graphical explain plan
> sometimes shows "using" for the index name
>
> Is this still present in the latest version of PgAdmin?
> v1.6.2 is the current stable version.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy.
>
>
> O'Shea, Brendan wrote:
> > This is a bug in the graphical explain plan in the pgAdmin
> III Query
> > tool. In the graphical explain plan if your query is ordering with
> > the help of an index and the order is "Descending" then the
> graphical
> > explain plan just says "using" as the index name. If the
> sort order
> > is ascending then the correct index name is displayed.
> Here are the
> > relevant lines from the textual output from explain:
> >
> >
> > DESC
> > -> Index Scan Backward using idx_name on table_name ASC
> > -> Index Scan using idx_name on table_name
> >
> > This may be because the code for getting the index name is grabbing
> > the 4th word and does not check to see if the word "Backward" was
> > added to the line, in which case the 5th word should be used.
> >
> > My Environment:
> > pgAdmin III 1.4.3
> > Default config, downloaded precomplied binary for windows
> Windows XP
> > Postgresql 8.1.4
> >
> >
> > To reproduce the problem is simple, just be sure to order by an
> > indexed column and then click the Explain Query button:
> >
> > select * from table_name order by indexed_col asc limit 1 select *
> > from table_name order by indexed_col desc limit 1
> >
> >
> > I did a mailing list search but didn't see anyone else
> reporting this.
> > If it's a newly found bug then I'd greatly appreciate it if someone
> > could fix this. I use the graphical query explain tool a
> lot, I find
> > it to be very useful when designing new queries.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brendan
> >
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