Re: Fast Index Creation and fill factor

2010-08-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 30), Kyong Kim said: I've been going through the 5.1 manual and exploring the new features. To add a secondary index to an existing table, InnoDB scans the table, and sorts the rows using memory buffers and temporary files in order by the value(s) of the secondary

Fast Index Creation and fill factor

2010-08-30 Thread Kyong Kim
I've been going through the 5.1 manual and exploring the new features. To add a secondary index to an existing table, InnoDB scans the table, and sorts the rows using memory buffers and temporary files in order by the value(s) of the secondary index key column(s). The B-tree is then built in