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Does union lose indexes?
Posted by: Ofer Kalisky
Date: June 02, 2009 05:51AM

I have a table:

CREATE TABLE `session_1` (
`Id` bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`SessionId` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
`StartTime` datetime default NULL,
`EndTime` datetime default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`Id`),
KEY `SessionId` (`SessionId`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

and another table:
CREATE TABLE `session_2` (
`Id` bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`SessionId` bigint(20) NOT NULL,
`StartTime` datetime default NULL,
`EndTime` datetime default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`Id`),
KEY `SessionId` (`SessionId`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

then I want to union them:

create view sessions as (select *,"1" as server_id from session_1) union all (select *,"2" as server_id from session_2);

now, running this:
SELECT * FROM session_1 where SessionId=123;
is fast and:
SELECT * FROM session_2 where SessionId=123;
but running:
SELECT * FROM session where SessionId=123;
is slow.

here's their explanation:
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM session_1 where SessionId=123;
+----+-------------+---------+------+---------------+------------+---------+-------+------+-------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+---------+------+---------------+------------+---------+-------+------+-------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | session | ref | ContractId | ContractId | 8 | const | 1 | |
+----+-------------+---------+------+---------------+------------+---------+-------+------+-------+

EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM session where SessionId=123;
+----+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+--------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+--------+-------------+
| 1 | PRIMARY | <derived2> | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 144792 | Using where |
| 2 | DERIVED | session | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 75735 | |
| 3 | UNION | session | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 75735 | |
| NULL | UNION RESULT | <union2,3> | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | |
+----+--------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+--------+-------------+

can it be that the union lost my indexes?

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