Bug #54808 | Optimizer use REF joins where it should use EQ_REF | ||
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Submitted: | 25 Jun 2010 13:42 | Modified: | 3 Dec 2013 12:47 |
Reporter: | Ole John Aske | Email Updates: | |
Status: | Closed | Impact on me: | |
Category: | MySQL Server: Optimizer | Severity: | S3 (Non-critical) |
Version: | 5.1.47, 5.5.6-m3 | OS: | Any |
Assigned to: | CPU Architecture: | Any |
[25 Jun 2010 13:42]
Ole John Aske
[25 Jun 2010 13:56]
Valeriy Kravchuk
Verified just as described, also - with current mysql_trunk from bzr: valeriy-kravchuks-macbook-pro:trunk openxs$ bin/mysql -uroot test Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 1 Server version: 5.5.6-m3-debug Source distribution Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL v2 license Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> drop table t3; ERROR 1051 (42S02): Unknown table 't3' mysql> create table t3 (a3 int not null, b3 int not null, c3 int not null, d3 int not null, -> primary key(a3)) engine = myisam; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec) mysql> create unique index ix1 on t3(b3,c3); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.24 sec) Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 mysql> create unique index ix2 on t3(b3,d3); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec) Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 mysql> mysql> insert into t3 values (0x1f, 0x2f, 1, 0x1f); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> insert into t3 values (0x2f, 0x3f, 2, 0x2f); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> insert into t3 values (0x3f, 0x1f, 3, 0x3f); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> mysql> explain -> select * -> from t3 as X JOIN t3 as Y using(b3,d3); +----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+-----------+------+-------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+-----------+------+-------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | X | ALL | ix1,ix2 | NULL | NULL | NULL | 3 | | | 1 | SIMPLE | Y | ref | ix1,ix2 | ix1 | 4 | test.X.b3 | 1 | Using where | +----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+-----------+------+-------------+ 2 rows in set (0.05 sec) mysql> drop index ix1 on t3; Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.06 sec) Records: 3 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 mysql> explain select * from t3 as X JOIN t3 as Y using(b3,d3); +----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+------+---------+---------------------+------+-------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+------+---------+---------------------+------+-------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | X | ALL | ix2 | NULL | NULL | NULL | 3 | | | 1 | SIMPLE | Y | eq_ref | ix2 | ix2 | 8 | test.X.b3,test.X.d3 | 1 | | +----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+------+---------+---------------------+------+-------+ 2 rows in set (0.01 sec) mysql> create unique index ix1 on t3(b3,c3); Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.40 sec) Records: 3 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 mysql> explain select * from t3 as X JOIN t3 as Y using(b3,d3); +----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+------+---------+---------------------+------+-------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+------+---------+---------------------+------+-------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | X | ALL | ix2,ix1 | NULL | NULL | NULL | 3 | | | 1 | SIMPLE | Y | eq_ref | ix2,ix1 | ix2 | 8 | test.X.b3,test.X.d3 | 1 | | +----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+------+---------+---------------------+------+-------+ 2 rows in set (0.01 sec) P.S. I remember some older bug reports that proved index creation order matters :(
[28 Jun 2010 23:06]
Omer Barnir
triage: setting to SRMRTBD should be considered with new optimizer features
[3 Dec 2013 12:47]
Paul DuBois
Noted in 5.7.4 changelog. The optimizer could choose ref access over eq_ref access when cost of a nonunique access was evaluated before cost of a unique index.