Index process in Firebird2.1

[elechos]

Hi!
I'm going to develop a commercial program with Zeos6.6.6 and Firebird2.1, in Delphi7.
I want to know whether the following index is picked by the optimizer.

[The first question]
CREATE INDEX IDX1 ON PROJECT(A)
CREATE INDEX IDX2 ON PROJECT(B)
CREATE INDEX IDX3 ON PROJECT(C)
CREATE INDEX IDX4 ON PROJECT(D)

SELECT * PROJECT WHERE A=1 and B=2 and C=3 and D=4
The optimizer would be choose the fastest way among table-full-scan and four indexs. Is this right?


[The second question]
CREATE INDEX IDX1 ON PROJECT(A)
CREATE INDEX IDX2 ON PROJECT(B,C,D)

SELECT * PROJECT WHERE A=1 and B=2 and C=3 and D=4
The optimizer would be choose the fastest way among table-full-scan and two indexs. Is this right?


[The third question]
CREATE INDEX IDX ON PROJECT(B,C,D)

SELECT * PROJECT WHERE A=1 and B=2 and C=3 and D=4
The optimizer would be choose the fastest way among table-full-scan and IDX index. Is this right?

please tell me.
Thanks!

[marsupilami]

Hello elechos,

Zeos 6.6 is not supported anymore. Please use Zeos 7.1 or even better Zeos 7.2 from SVN. Both have several improvements for Firebird and are compatible with Delphi 7.

Regarding your question about Indices: Zeos deosn't decide about which Indices get used by the optimizer. Please ask that question on the firebird-support mailing list.

With best regards,

Jan