Re: Huge number of tables with InnoDB

2006-01-13 Thread Alec . Cawley
To reply to this, I think we have to understand why you have chosen to split the tables at all. It seems to me that this, by introducing a two-level lookup, is certain to be slower than any possible single table lookup. Generally, Log A + log B is bound to be larger than log (A*B). It appears

RE: Huge number of tables with InnoDB

2006-01-13 Thread John McCaskey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 9:41 AM To: John McCaskey Cc: MySQL Subject: Re: Huge number of tables with InnoDB To reply to this, I think we have to understand why you have chosen to split the tables at all. It seems to me

Re: Huge number of tables with InnoDB

2006-01-13 Thread Peter Brawley
Alec writes ...Generally, Log A + log B is bound to be larger than log (A*B)... Errm, log A + log B exactly = log(A*B) :-) . PB - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To reply to this, I think we have to understand why you have chosen to split the tables at all. It seems to me that this, by