On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:26, Shane | SkinnyCorp wrote: > Okay, just so no one posts about this again... > > the 'ORDER BY t.status=5,lastreply' clause is meant to float the threads > with a status of '5' to the top of the list... it is NOT meant to only grab > threads where the status = 5. Oh and believe me, when I take this out of > the query, it CERTAINLY doesn't add any more than possible 1/4 of a > millesecond to the speed of the SELECT statement.
Wouldn't this work just as well? SELECT * FROM thread_listing AS t ORDER BY t.status DESC,t.lastreply desc LIMIT 25 OFFSET 0 Assuming 5 is the highest number. If not, a where clause entry might make sense. SELECT * FROM thread_listing AS t WHERE t.status <= 5 ORDER BY t.status DESC,t.lastreply desc LIMIT 25 OFFSET 0 Or is the data set put together some weird way that makes that impossible? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
