get highest number

[John Snelson]

http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk wrote:
> If I get you right, Wolfgang, my solution would be to do the max/highest evaluation in my application. 

I doubt that will make a difference, since doing it the application will 
still mean fetching the values of all the "id" attributes, and that 
seems to be what is taking the time.

John

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