If you are using MyISAM tables, have you thought about using MERGE tables instead? You could partition your table into several smaller tables. I don't know how the performance would be on a billion record table, but from my understanding it would shrink your index down.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/MERGE.html On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:09:43 +0100, Phil Bitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the informative reply Sergei, > > We're actually just using an INT field at the moment, we were going to move > over to BIGINT when we start using 64-bit MySQL (soon). > Do you know where I should look for information on writing our own table > handler? > > Thanks, > -Phil -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
