Hi Jerry, I guess modification of the table is needed! What are you trying to achieve by partitioning?
If the primary key is rarely used then maybe adding another column with a numeric value based on `prod_id` and adding that column to the primary key would work and at least let you do some hash partitioning to distribute data, may take some time to run if the table is large but something like this may work.... ALTER TABLE `prod_price` ADD COLUMN `partition_key` int unsigned; ALTER TABLE `prod_price` DROP primary key; UPDATE `prod_price` set `partition_key` = ASCII(prod_id); ALTER TABLE `prod_price` add primary key(prod_price_id,partition_key); ALTER TABLE `prod_price` PARTITION BY HASH(partition_key) PARTITIONS 4; Just an rough idea based on me not knowing anything about your data and only a little about partitioning. Be very interested to hear how you eventually overcome this issue so please do let me know what you decide. Regards John Daisley ================== John Daisley Certified MySQL DBA / Developer IBM Cognos BI Developer Tel: +44(0)1283 537111 Mobile: +44 (0)7819 621621 Email: j...@butterflysystems.co.uk ================== Sent via HP IPAQ mobile device. -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Schwartz <jschwa...@the-infoshop.com> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 10:51 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Partitioning I'd like to know your opinions about partitioning the following table. Here's the relevant snippet: Create Table: CREATE TABLE `prod_price` ( `prod_price_id` varchar(15) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `prod_id` varchar(15) DEFAULT NULL, . PRIMARY KEY (`prod_price_id`), KEY `prod_id` (`prod_id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 Here's the deal. The primary key, `prod_price_id`, is rarely used. Prices, as you might expect, are fetched by `prod_id`. Both keys are randomly generated strings. (Before you ask, I am not a mental health professional and am therefore not qualified to judge my predecessor.) How could I partition this table in a useful way? Regards, Jerry Schwartz The Infoshop by Global Information Incorporated 195 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06032 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341 <http://www.the-infoshop.com> www.the-infoshop.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
