Running a report without indexes

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Tue Mar 19 11:55:46 PDT 2013


On 3/19/2013 2:09 PM, Ian Wood wrote:
[...]
> I just think that when running a report that I know is not 'doing' anything
> to the indexes, there should be a way to turn off accessing them.

Once again:

If you aren't running via an index, and you are not updating any records, 
and you are not doing any indexed lookups, then filePro shouldn't be 
accessing the indexes beyond reading the automatic index headers when the 
file is opened.

> Apparently -ro does not do that, and I'm on the latest and greatest filePro
> version now.

Why would it affect index access?  It simply tells filePro that everything 
is to be made read-only.  For example, if you were to have a lookup via an 
index, you *can't* "turn off" accessing that index.

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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