>> The INDEXED BY feature was introduced to address concerns that SQLite >> might >> suddenly start using a different plan for a query in the field than >> it >> did >> in the office during testing. Either because somebody ran ANALYZE, or >> because >> the SQLite version was upgraded. In this situation, some users >> consider it >> better to throw an exception than to run the query with a different, >> possibly >> slower, plan. > > Confusion reigns supreme. Your second last paragraph says (about your > last scenario) that it uses index i1 instead of the apparently better > index i2 -- no exception throwing. Your last paragraph indicates > that in > this case an exception would be thrown.
I guess I got that wrong then. Said users considered it better to throw an error if the index that the author of the SQL query expected it to use had been removed or radically altered. Dan. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
