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Re: Optimizations on ORDER BY with partitions
Posted by: Mikael Ronström
Date: April 13, 2006 12:09AM

Hi,
Ok, if I understood you correctly the idea is that several ranges in a
range partitioned table use the same partition. A bit like LIST partitioning
with lists of ranges instead of list of points.

Rgrds Mikael

James Porter wrote:
> The major speed improvement that I see with
> partitioning is the fact that it avoids having to
> do a full table scan for a query. The less data
> that is read, the faster the query. We all know
> the limiting speed factor these days is the hard
> drive.
>
> By catch-all I was referring to range
> partitioning. If you can create specific
> partitions for common ranges and then use your
> catch all for less common ranges. This pattern
> would make queries for your common ranges fast and
> also speed up queries that operate on one extreme
> of your ranges.

Mikael Ronstrom
Senior Software Architect, MySQL AB
My blog: http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com

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