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Is Partitioning a good way to handle deletes?
Posted by: John Smith
Date: November 06, 2010 05:34PM

I have a table:

CREATE TABLE responses (
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
other_id INT NOT NULL,
details TEXT,
deleted BOOLEAN,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
);

Users could delete records in `responses`.

My plan is to use the field `deleted` to implement deletion. Any time a user deletes a record, I'll set `deleted` to `1`.

Every now and then I might want to get rid of all the deleted records or to archive them. I'm thinking of using partitioning to make that faster:

PARTITION BY LIST(deleted) (
PARTITION pActive VALUES IN (0),
PARTITION pDeleted VALUES IN (1)
);

My question is would this make the act of deletion slower? Now that when I change a record's "deleted" field, MySQL would need to move the record to an entirely different partition. That seems like it could be slow.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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