On Sun, 2005-23-10 at 21:36 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> SELECT id INTO v_check
> FROM some_table ORDER BY id LIMIT 1;
>
> IF id > 0 THEN ....
>
> ... that says pretty clearly to code maintainers that I'm only interested in
> finding out whether there's any rows in the table, while making sure I use
> the index on ID.
Why would you want to use the index on ID?
-Neil
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