show processlist oddities

2002-01-31 Thread Michael Griffith
Personally I feel that I have a pretty good understanding on MySQL locking, however I am confused by the output I've received from SHOW PROCESSLIST at seemingly random times. At the end of this message is the output from SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST. ALL queries from output are shown. ALL WHERE clauses

concurrent insert documentation clarification

2001-12-12 Thread Michael Griffith
The MySQL documentation says: To ensure that the update log/binary log can be used to re-create the original tables, MySQL will not allow concurrent inserts during INSERT SELECT Does this mean: A. An INSERT...SELECT cannot run if any other SELECT is running on the table OR B. An

connections not closing

2001-10-26 Thread Michael Griffith
What could be a possible cause for DB connections that do not close? I have a Apache-PHP-mysql setup and the apache/php thread appears to exit, but show processlist report connections that stay open and sleep Is there a way to determine what was run on that connection that may have caused it to

Re: Serious LEFT JOIN bug in 3.23

2001-03-21 Thread Michael Griffith
with an empty result set. Maybe I didn't understand your objection completely. But what I see seems perfectly reasonable to me. Bye, Benjamin. "Michael Griffith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EXPLAIN LEFT JOIN fails when joining on an empty table with constant in WH

Re: Serious LEFT JOIN bug in 3.23

2001-03-21 Thread Michael Griffith
I appreciate your explanation. You may be correct about Standard SQL, however I do not believe that this can be explained as a simple cross-product. If a LEFT JOIN were implemented starting with a cross product then NO LEFT JOIN would EVER return NULL in the right table. A pure cross product

Serious LEFT JOIN bug in 3.23

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Griffith
EXPLAIN LEFT JOIN fails when joining on an empty table with constant in WHERE clause CREATE TABLE idx ( id mediumint, KEY id (id), ) TYPE=MyISAM CREATE TABLE hist ( id mediumint, link mediumint, KEY id (id,link) ) TYPE=MyISAM Table idx is populated with thousands or records. Consider

Re: Serious LEFT JOIN bug in 3.23

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Griffith
hist.id will never be NULL and 5 at the same time. Your clauses conflict with each other. You need to re-write your query. This is ture, except the query suceeds if there is records in 'hist' Even if it is not a bug it is at least inconsistent behaviour of MySQL "Michael Gri

forward slash in indexed search

2001-03-12 Thread Michael Griffith
Can anyone explain why LIKE queries do not use an index when the LIKE string contains a forward slash? Example: CREATE TABLE words ( word varchar(250) PRIMARY KEY ); Populate table with 200,000+ rows EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM words WHERE word LIKE 'abcdef'; This query uses the Primary key to

Re: forward slash in indexed search

2001-03-12 Thread Michael Griffith
Can anyone explain why LIKE queries do not use an index when the LIKE string contains a forward slash? Follow-up to my own post: The problem is with the '_' wildcard, but I still don't understand. My previous examples were simplified, but here is the exact query: SELECT * FROM words WHERE word

query optimization suggestion

2001-02-01 Thread Michael Griffith
When using mySQL I've learned to avoid OR in any queries as much as possible . Almost always this causes a major speed decrease. Consider this table: CREATE TABLE test( userID int, # (non-unique) testID int, # (non-unique) PRIMARY key(testid,userid) ); Suppose this table is

Re: query optimization suggestion

2001-02-01 Thread Michael Griffith
Shouldn't the first query have parenthesis? As in: DELETE FROM test WHERE userID=X AND (testID20 OR testID80); Even if it works the other way, parenthesis make it more clear what you're trying to accomplish. -Angela Actually, yes. Sorry about the poor example. My point is that

temp tables lock unrelated tables

2001-01-19 Thread Michael Griffith
Using SHOW PROCESSLIST or mysqladmin proc Every time a table reports status of 'copying to tmp table' all other UPDATE queries are locked, even in unrelated tables. For example: Query #1: SELECT * FROM a JOIN B WHERE Status: copying to tmp table Query #2: UPDATE C SET x=x+1 WHERE..

Re: temp tables lock unrelated tables

2001-01-19 Thread Michael Griffith
| +--++ Michael Griffith writes: Using SHOW PROCESSLIST or mysqladmin proc Every time a table reports status of 'copying to tmp table' all other UPDATE queries are locked, even in unrelated tables. For example: Query #1: SELECT * FROM a JOIN B WHERE Status: copying to tmp

temp tables lock unrelated tables

2001-01-19 Thread Michael Griffith
Earlier I posted a message about SHOW PROCESSLIST reporting queries "locked" whenever another thread is "Copying to tmp table" After many more hours of diagnosis, the actual problem is somewhat different: MySQL does report other processes as locked. But they do not wait until the temp table