Jesse, mysql> SHOW INDEX FROM mytable;
gives you all indexes for `mytable`; you can process the results with perl. Thomas Spahni On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > I have a database where, most of the time, I'm bulk-loading > data into new tables from an external source, several million > rows at a time. For this purpose, I create the tables without > indexes, and then add all my indexes after the load is done, > for efficiency purposes. > > I'd now like to add the possibility of adding some data to the > existing database. In this case, the indexes exist, and then > the new data will be indexed as it goes in (which is OK given > the relatively small amount of data to be processed this way). > > I'd like to be able to test for the existence of an index, so > that after the bulk-load, I can see if there are indexes, > there won't be any, and I can create them; but after an > addition to an existing database, there will be indexes, and I > won't create them. > > How do I do this? It wasn't clear from the manual, and I'm > away from my books now so can't look there for advice. I'm > using Perl to process the data, if there's a Perlish way of > doing things that would be easier than SQL. > > Jesse Sheidlower > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
