Re: blob versus file

2002-07-03 Thread central
Kristian, Question: Can the MySQL BLOB API access and transfer partial blobs. That is, if you want to do the equivalent of a file * to a BLOB table, the first 10 bytes or so of each BLOB must be read in order to guess the type of the BLOB. Is it possible to implement this efficiently using the

Re: 3.23.51 LIMIT efficiency problem

2002-06-20 Thread central
At 09:03 PM 6/19/2002, you wrote: I am using MySQL 3.23.51 on Linux. I have a fixed-length table with 45 million rows. It appears MySQL has an efficiency issue with the LIMIT command. When I run SELECT a FROM b LIMIT 0, 100 -- that's one million The query finishes almost immediately.