>>Ugh...I still hope it's fixed, since in our case it's probably a deal breaker for being able to upgrade.
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>As Aleksey pointed out in this thread, SYS(11) can return variable length result which makes indexes with it not optimizable.

Well, they were optimizable before, even if it was broken <g>. Is there a case where this index won't work, even in VFP 8.