Re: [PERFORM] adding 'limit' leads to very slow query

2005-03-13 Thread Michael McFarland
completes instantly. However, I feel like I should find the heart of the problem, since bad statistics could end up affecting other plans, right? - Mike On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:03:43 -0800 (PST), Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Michael McFarland wrote: I&

[PERFORM] adding 'limit' leads to very slow query

2005-03-07 Thread Michael McFarland
I'm trying to understand why a particular query is slow, and it seems like the optimizer is choosing a strange plan. See this summary: * I have a large table, with an index on the primary key 'id' and on a field 'foo'. select count(*) from foo; 1,000,000 select count(*) from foo where bar =