Well, MySql stores all its index information in one index file, so when you
add another index it has to rebuild the WHOLE file. :)
Peter
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----- Original Message -----
From: "david" <simoon@stripped>
To: "Peter Grigor" <pgrigor@stripped>; <mysql@stripped>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: CREATE INDEX is sooo slow! any ideas?
> Yes it is but why would that slow down index creation on the other field.
> The full text index is just for the body field.
>
> Thanks
>
> At 05:58 PM 2/16/2003 -0500, Peter Grigor wrote:
> >That body column wouldn't happen to be a fulltext index, would it? :)
> >
> >If so, 'ave another coffee.
> >
> >Peter
> ><^_^>
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> >Peter Grigor
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> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "david" <simoon@stripped>
> >To: <mysql@stripped>
> >Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 5:47 PM
> >Subject: CREATE INDEX is sooo slow! any ideas?
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have one table with 12 million records. I'm trying to create an
index
> > > on one of the fields and it's taking hours ( over 6 so far)! Am I
doing
> > > something wrong?
> > >
> > > The command I issued was
> > > create index title on article ( title);
> > >
> > > The table files are
> > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 8646 Feb 14 17:32 article.frm
> > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 1406663720 Feb 14 23:27 article.MYD
> > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 69661696 Feb 14 23:27 article.MYI
> > >
> > > As you can see the main file is 1.4Gb
> > >
> > > The table definition is
> > > mysql> show columns from article;
> > > +-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> > > | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
> > > +-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> > > | ID | bigint(20) | YES | | NULL | |
> > > | id2 | bigint(20) | YES | | NULL | |
> > > | title | varchar(250) | YES | | NULL | |
> > > | body | text | YES | MUL | NULL | |
> > > +-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> > > 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> > >
> > > I'm running this on linux redhat 7.3, P500Mhz 512Mb ram -- MySQL
version
> > > 3.23.53a
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > David
> > >
> > >
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