Hello, Well, you have just invented what is known as index organized tables. The MyISAM engine does not implement those. If it did, it would have to deal with quite a few circumstances unique to IOTs. One such circumstance is degradation of efficiency with the increase of record length, another is bloating the size of secondary indexes, and there is quite a few more...
In short, the alternative to keeping the MYD file would be much worse :-) Peace Karen. On 24.11.2012, at 13:02, Hank wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I know this is a longshot, but is there any way to eliminate the MYD > file for a table that has a full covering index? The index is larger > than the datafile, since it contains all the records in the datafile, > plus a second reverse index. It seems redundant to have to also store > a MYD file. > > Thanks, > > -Hank > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
