Hi!

>I'm trying to understand what the status field of the "SHOW PROCESSLIST"
>command means.  When I execute a query - "SELECT count(*) as count from
>table1 where col1 like "name%";", the query takes a long time to execute.
>The table has over 47,000,000 records and is indexed on col1.
>
>What does the status "sending data" mean?  It doesn't seem like there is
>that much data that needs to be sent for a count query.

I think it means it is 'sending' rows to the count operator, not to the user.

>Thanks,
>Jeff

Regards,

Heikki
http://www.innodb.com



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