Description:
When you perform and EXPLAIN PARTITIONS SELECT the explain plan reports all a count of all rows if no indexes are used. It would be logical that it only report the row count for the partitions examined.
How to repeat:
From the 5.1 manual:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/partitioning-info.html
Suppose that you have a table trb1 defined and populated as follows:
CREATE TABLE trb1 (id INT, name VARCHAR(50), purchased DATE)
PARTITION BY RANGE(id)
(
PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN (3),
PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN (7),
PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN (9),
PARTITION p3 VALUES LESS THAN (11)
);
INSERT INTO trb1 VALUES
(1, 'desk organiser', '2003-10-15'),
(2, 'CD player', '1993-11-05'),
(3, 'TV set', '1996-03-10'),
(4, 'bookcase', '1982-01-10'),
(5, 'exercise bike', '2004-05-09'),
(6, 'sofa', '1987-06-05'),
(7, 'popcorn maker', '2001-11-22'),
(8, 'aquarium', '1992-08-04'),
(9, 'study desk', '1984-09-16'),
(10, 'lava lamp', '1998-12-25');
You can see which partitions are used in a query such as SELECT * FROM trb1;, as shown here:
mysql> EXPLAIN PARTITIONS SELECT * FROM trb1\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
id: 1
select_type: SIMPLE
table: trb1
partitions: p0,p1,p2,p3
type: ALL
possible_keys: NULL
key: NULL
key_len: NULL
ref: NULL
rows: 10
Extra: Using filesort
In this case, all four partitions are searched. However, when a limiting condition making use of the partitioning key is added to the query, you can see that only those partitions containing matching values are scanned, as shown here:
mysql> EXPLAIN PARTITIONS SELECT * FROM trb1 WHERE id < 5\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
id: 1
select_type: SIMPLE
table: trb1
partitions: p0,p1
type: ALL
possible_keys: NULL
key: NULL
key_len: NULL
ref: NULL
rows: 10
Extra: Using where
The rows do not total 10 from partitions p0 and p1.
Suggested fix:
Have Explain results only count the rows from the selected partitions.
