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  • Committer: Olaf van der Spek
  • Date: 2011-06-24 13:24:06 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 2349.
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CREATE INDEX
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CREATE [UNIQUE] INDEX index_name [USING {BTREE | HASH}] ON table_name (column_name [length] [ASC | DESC], ...);
 
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.. code-block:: mysql
 
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   CREATE [UNIQUE] INDEX index_name [USING {BTREE | HASH}] ON table_name (column_name [length] [ASC | DESC], ...);
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An example:
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CREATE INDEX table_1_index ON table_1 (a,b);
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This would create an index on table_t named  table_1_index that convered
 
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.. code-block:: mysql
 
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        CREATE INDEX table_1_index ON table_1 (a,b);
 
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This would create an index on table_t named table_1_index that converged
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columns a and b.
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FIXME: how this is implemented currently. i.e. no fast add index
 
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Fast index creation (where a storage engine can create or drop indexes
 
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without copying and rebuilding the contents of the entire table) is
 
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not implemented yet for Drizzle, but it is slated for the future.