problem forcing indexes

2008-01-03 Thread Tanner Postert
I have the following 2 tables: CREATE TABLE media ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, user_id int(10) unsigned default NULL, title varchar(255) NOT NULL, description text NOT NULL, `hash` varchar(255) NOT NULL, length float(9,2) NOT NULL, created timestamp NOT NULL

Re: problem forcing indexes

2008-01-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Jan 3, 2008 4:23 PM, Tanner Postert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to add a force index (PRIMARY) after the media table to try and make is use PRIMARY, rather than TYPE, the optimizer switches and uses no key at all. It usually knows better than you do about indexes. I've tried to