Matthew, Regarding: "There's no way to optimize your query to be fast in both situations."
I do *not* know if this would be of any help, but the newest 3.1.18 sqlite release which includes the SQLITE_ENABLE_STAT2 feature may possibly be of interest: (and excuse me if you've mentioned this already) http://sqlite.org/compile.html#enable_stat2 SQLITE_ENABLE_STAT2 This option adds additional logic to the ANALYZE command and to the query planner that can help SQLite to chose a better query plan under certain situations. The ANALYZE command is enhanced to collect a 10-sample histogram of the data in each index and store that histogram in the sqlite_stat2 table. The query planner will then use the histogram data to help it estimate how many rows will be selected by a range constraint in a WHERE clause. Regards, Donald Griggs _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
