[aur-dev] [PATCH 2/2] Use sane ORDER BY clauses in package list queries

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:04:11AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
> We were doing some silly things here with an "ORDER BY Name, CategoryID"
> clause, due to the fact that Name is unique, and thus any additional
> ordering after Name will have no effect. Of course, the dumb as a box of
> rocks MySQL query optimizer doesn't realize this, leading to full table
> scans every time of ~30000 packages instead of using index scans for the
> ordering and only retrieving the first 50 rows.
> 
> The biggest change is noted in the default sort order as it cuts down
> the columns to one, but we can remove the redundant sort from other
> orderings as well, even though those will still not be able to use an
> index-driven query plan.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>
> ---
> 
> This will directly address 2 of the top 5 queries in the sigurd MySQL slow
> query log.

Ack, thanks.