Hi Guys,

Firstly, this is the only time I have ever encountered this problem and
searching archives or google shed no luck since yesterday so here I am .

I have a table described below:

mysql> describe containers;
+--------------------+------------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default |
Extra |
+--------------------+------------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| internal_id | mediumint(20) unsigned | NO | PRI | NULL |
auto_increment |
| category_id | smallint(20) unsigned | YES | MUL | NULL
| |
| user_id | mediumint(20) unsigned | YES | MUL | NULL
| |
| parts_amount | int(2) | NO | | 0
| |
| file_name | varchar(64) | NO | MUL |
| |
| file_format | varchar(5) | NO | MUL |
| |
| file_info | text | NO | | NULL
| |
| file_description | text | YES | | NULL
| |
| admin_comments | text | YES | | NULL
| |
| is_approved | tinyint(1) | YES | MUL | 0
| |
| is_shared | tinyint(1) | YES | MUL | 1
| |
| is_deleted | tinyint(1) | YES | | 0
| |
| upload_date | bigint(10) | NO | MUL | 0
| |
| downloads | int(11) | YES | MUL | 0
| |
| last_download_date | bigint(10) | NO | MUL | 0
| |
| rating | decimal(3,1) | YES | MUL | 0.0
| |
| ftp_site | smallint(6) | NO | MUL | 0
| |
| total_votes | int(11) | NO | MUL | NULL
| |
| total_dnloads | int(11) | NO | | NULL
| |
| total_votes_ave | float | NO | | 0
| |
| total_votes_sum | int(11) | NO | | NULL
| |
| file_img | varchar(120) | NO | | NULL
| |
| file_extended_info | text | NO | | NULL
| |
| file_exist | tinyint(4) | NO | MUL | 0
| |
| post_options | varchar(20) | NO | | NULL
| |
+--------------------+------------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
25 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select count(*) from containers;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 9504 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select count(*) from containers where upload_date < 1209208414 and
category_id = 120;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 795 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

And I have queries like these:

select * from containers where upload_date < 1209208414 and category_id =
120 order by upload_date desc limit 0,25

and

select * from containers where upload_date < 1209208414 and category_id =
120 order by upload_date desc limit 175,25

These queries are dynamically generated and is is being paged for browser
display so the second query means I am on the 8th page for 25 items each
page.

The problem is, offsets 0...150 (LIMIT [0...150],25) will not return any
results while 175 onwards will. This happens only when I am filtering
category_id 120, all other categories does not yield this odd result. I have
no clue whatsoever what is going on, executing the query directly from the
server yields the same results. Now, if I omit either the order by or limit
clauses I get results all through out.

Hope someone can shed some light.

Jervin