[libreoffice-users] Base record access unacceptably slow

This has been a problem from the beginning, and it's becoming intolerable.

The principal table in my database has about 550 records, with about 20 
fields each.  A number are binary in type, and two are memo, with the 
rest being text or foreign keys. Almost all the memo fields are empty.

Just to move the record pointer from the first to the last record takes 
almost exactly 20 seconds. To do a search of the beginning of the main 
text field for a 6 character string that isn't there (i.e., the engine 
searches to the very end of the table) takes 2 minutes and 5 seconds. 
You can imagine how long it takes to locate and update 10 records. This 
is the worst performance I've ever seen in a database, period.

Indexes exist on the primary key and on the primary text field. It seems 
to make no difference. As the engine reports its progress during the 
search, it appears to be doing a serial search through every record.

At this rate, I'll be unable to make meaningful use of this database in 
about a week.

Is there anything at all I can do about this appalling situation?

I hope I just missing something that can be pointed out to me. But 
information on indexes is essentially nonexistent. There's none in the 
LO "book", or the Help file, or the underlying HYPERSQL engine's 
documentation. Amazing, but true.

I do hope someone has some ideas for me.

Thanks in advance.

Tom


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