RE: Indexing about 40 Billion Entries

[Rick James]

Possibly worse than that, since it will rebuild the 'first' index again.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mos [mailto:mos99@stripped]
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:51 AM
> To: mysql@stripped
> Subject: Re: Indexing about 40 Billion Entries
> 
> At 02:04 AM 6/21/2012, you wrote:
> >Thank you a lot. The first indexing process finished after about 13
> >hours, so I think the problem is solved now.
> >I set the myisam_sort_bufffer_size to 10GB.
> 
> The "first indexing process"???
> 
> You should have created all of your indexes with one Alter statement.
> Otherwise it will take another 13+ hours to build the second index
> because it has to create a copy of the table all over again.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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