So... there is an index, and it's supposedly used:
mysql> EXPLAIN SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates),
s_ts_r_m, quartersection FROM qs WHERE
MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589 -114.82248918,51.65126254
-114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.78150333,51.62582589
-114.82248918))'), coordinates);
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+-------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref |
rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+-------+---------+------+------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | qs | range | coord | coord | 27 | NULL |
5260 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-------+-------+---------------+-------+---------+------+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
But when I run the query:
mysql> SELECT id, province, latitude, longitude, AsText(coordinates), s_ts_r_m,
quartersection FROM qs WHERE MBRContains(GeomFromText('POLYGON((51.62582589
-114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.82248918,51.65126254 -114.78150333,51.62582589
-114.78150333,51.62582589 -114.82248918))'), coordinates)
-> ;
+--------+----------+-------------+---------------+----------------------------------+--------------+----------------+
| id | province | latitude | longitude | AsText(coordinates)
| s_ts_r_m | quartersection |
+--------+----------+-------------+---------------+----------------------------------+--------------+----------------+
| 444543 | AB | 51.63495228 | -114.79282412 | POINT(51.63495228
-114.79282412) | 04-031-06 W5 | N4 |
| 444564 | AB | 51.64941120 | -114.79283278 | POINT(51.6494112
-114.79283278) | 09-031-06 W5 | N4 |
| 444548 | AB | 51.63497789 | -114.81645649 | POINT(51.63497789
-114.81645649) | 05-031-06 W5 | N4 |
| 444561 | AB | 51.64943119 | -114.81643801 | POINT(51.64943119
-114.81643801) | 08-031-06 W5 | N4 |
| 444547 | AB | 51.62775680 | -114.80475858 | POINT(51.6277568
-114.80475858) | 05-031-06 W5 | E4 |
| 444549 | AB | 51.63498028 | -114.80479925 | POINT(51.63498028
-114.80479925) | 05-031-06 W5 | NE |
| 444560 | AB | 51.64220442 | -114.80478262 | POINT(51.64220442
-114.80478262) | 08-031-06 W5 | E4 |
| 444562 | AB | 51.64942854 | -114.80476596 | POINT(51.64942854
-114.80476596) | 08-031-06 W5 | NE |
+--------+----------+-------------+---------------+----------------------------------+--------------+----------------+
8 rows in set (3.87 sec)
So, there are ~2.6 million rows in the table, and coordinates is
spatially-indexed. Yet the query requires nearly 4 seconds. What am I doing
wrong?
...REne
