On Friday 12 October 2007, henk de wit <henk53602@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > select payment_id from transactions order by payment_id desc limit 1; > > This one is indeed instant! Less than 50ms. In my case I can't use it for > max though because of the fact that payment_id can be null (which is an > unfortunate design choice). The other variant however didn't become > instant. I.e. I tried: > > select time from transactions where payment_id = 67 order by time asc > limit 1; > > But this one is still really slow. If you had a compound index on payment_id,time (especially with a WHERE time IS NOT NULL conditional) it would likely speed it up. -- Ghawar is dying ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
