Running a report without indexes

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>

> > That means that there *are* some ways in which an index which is not
> > going to be used can still throw an error, which is what the OP is
> > complaining about, does it not?
> 
> Yes, but only if there is a read failure on the header, or the magic
> number
> isn't valid for a filePro index. In either case, that would not cause
> such
> a transient error, short of some transient read failure.
> 
> Yes, it does "use" the indexes in order to read their headers. But, it
> will
> not read any of the data within it, nor traverse the tree, nor modify
> it in
> any way.

And that's fine, but for his purposes, it means the answer is "yes,
you're right", rather than the "no it won't" you were framing it as. :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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