what about other functions like doing a min() or max()? are those slow
limitations of innodb tables as well?
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:52:21 -0600, Eric Bergen <eric.bergen@stripped> wrote:
> Total row count is cached in the header for MyISAM tables. InnoDB has
> no such mechanism for this because transactions make it impossible to
> keep an exact row count. In order for InnoDB to get a row count it
> has to do a full scan inside a transaction which will take a long
> time. One way around this is to maintain row count in another table.
>
> For show table status it's better to only check the tables you need.
> Example: show table status like 'my_table'
>
> I'm not aware of any plans to speed up either of these commands on InnoDB.
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:06:09 -0500, Zhe Wang <zwang@stripped> wrote:
> > Hi, there,
> >
> > I am in the middle of replacing a MyISAM database with InnoDB.
> > Queries "show table status" and "select count" are extremely slow which
> > gave me some pain. I am wondering if there are any other queries on
> > InnoDB that are significantly slower than those on MyISAM other than
> > these two? And does MySQL have any plan to speed up this kind of queries?
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance for your reply!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Zhe
> >
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