Isn’t there a logging_logindex table to use that should optimize this?

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> On Dec 30, 2017, at 14:07, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 1:07 PM, John <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Use the logging_userindex table instead of logging
> 
> That won't make much difference, since the select on the logging table isn't 
> targeting any user columns.
> 
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 1:09 PM, John <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I would also find the first log of 2017 and use that instead of the timestamp
> 
> That would make it worse, since there's no index on (log_type, log_id). It'll 
> either have to use the primary key and filter out all rows with a different 
> log_type, or use one of the indexes that begins with log_type and filter out 
> all the rows with an earlier log_id.
> 
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Dennis Tobar <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Replace count(*) with count(1) in the subquery. It could help (?) to improve 
> the performance.
> 
> "count(*)" and "count(1)" should be treated equivalently. The "*" in 
> "count(*)" does not cause the database to fetch all fields.
> 
> If anything, "count(*)" might be ever so slightly faster since it's literally 
> staying "count the number of rows" rather than "count the number of rows 
> where the constant 1 is not null". But the DB probably optimizes counting of 
> a constant to make them identical.
> 
> 
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> Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
> Senior Software Engineer
> Wikimedia Foundation
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