How can count(*) in an InnoDB table be faster than MAX() considering
that the former needs to do a table scan and the latter can use an index
if correctly used? My code starts the sequence from 1.
Thanks
Aveek
Johan De Meersman wrote:
> Kudos for managing to drag up such an obscure piece of functionality
> :-) I can see where it would be useful, though.
>
> As to your question, though: given that that page indicates that it
> will reuse deleted sequence numbers, I think your best bet would be
> select @id := count(*)+1 from table where cluster='clusterA' AND
> file='fileA' ; - should be slightly faster than a max(), I think. That
> in a trigger on your table should emulate the behaviour pretty closely.
>
> Am I mistaken, or does your code try to start from sequence 0 ?
>
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