[OSM-dev] mysql partitioning

[Richard Fairhurst]

Nick H wrote:

> However, most of the database time seems to be spent pulling segments
> from the database. For every node in the selected area, an index
> look-up is performed for segments associated with that node. Then for
> segments which have only one node associated with them, the other node
> is downloaded. This is very, very db intensive.

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Removing segments and making ways a list of ordered nodes would also  
reduce the db load here.
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cheers
Richard