[OSM-dev] Potlatch update

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Kristian Thy wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> Someone once told me that Mysql is too dumb to use an index inside an OR 
>> condition and that one would therefore be better off with UNIONs.
> 
> Dumb question: Doesn't MySQL come with a query analyzer?

Your talking about the database that can't figure out that:

 delete from table;

means empty the table completely, not one row at a time, so it has an
extra SQL instruction:

 truncate table;

that does the exactly the same thing, only quicker.

Robert (Jamie) Munro


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