Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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None
Description
Compact indexes are sorted based on the indexed columns, but we are not using this fact when we access the index.
To start with, if the index is stored as an RC file, and if the predicate being used to access the index consists of only one non-partition condition using one of the operators >,>=,<,<=,= we could use a binary search (if necessary) to find the block to begin scanning for unfiltered rows, and we could use the result of comparing the value in the column with the constant (this is necessarily the form of a predicate which is optimized using an index) to determine when we have found all the rows which will be unfiltered.