Anyone on the MySQL team feel like explaining that design decision, besides historical reasons? I doubt its any more efficient except in file descriptor usage (although I've expressed the same doubts about InnoDB's avoidance of the filesystem too).At 06:27 PM 2/16/2003 -0500, Peter Grigor wrote:Well, MySql stores all its index information in one index file, so when you
add another index it has to rebuild the WHOLE file. :)
SQL and all that ...
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Michael T. Babcock
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