Oh, this is what I believe MySQL calls "loose index scans".  I'm

Exactly :
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/loose-index-scan.html

actually looking into this as we speak,

Great ! Will it support the famous "top-n by category" ?

but there seems to be a
non-trivial amount of work to be done in order for this to work.


Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja


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