Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH

2003-12-24 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 07:07:57PM -0600, Matt W wrote: Hi Jeremy, - Original Message - From: Jeremy Zawodny Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:40:17PM -0600, Matt W wrote: Hi Mark

Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH

2003-12-23 Thread Matt W
Hi Jeremy, - Original Message - From: Jeremy Zawodny Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:40:17PM -0600, Matt W wrote: Hi Mark, I'll tell you what I know. :-) First, AVG_ROW_LENGTH is only

Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH

2003-12-23 Thread Matt W
. :-) More below... - Original Message - From: Mark Hawkes Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH Hi Matt, Thanks very much for your thoughts and advice. I was going to ignore using MAX_ROWS, MIN_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH because

Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH

2003-12-22 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:40:17PM -0600, Matt W wrote: Hi Mark, I'll tell you what I know. :-) First, AVG_ROW_LENGTH is only needed for dynamic row-length tables (it's ignored with fixed-length rows) -- more specifically, those with TEXT/BLOB columns. And VARCHAR/VARBINARY. Jeremy --

Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH

2003-12-19 Thread Mark Hawkes
Hi all, At table creation time I can use MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH to (a) limit the size of a HEAP table (b) overcome MyISAM's default 4GB limit But are they used in any other ways? Does MySQL use them to improve performance by sizing buffers appropriately or to prevent fragmentation in

Re: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH

2003-12-19 Thread Matt W
2 years old! - Original Message - From: Mark Hawkes Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:01 AM Subject: Benefits of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH Hi all, At table creation time I can use MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH to (a) limit the size of a HEAP table (b) overcome MyISAM's