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理解Explain命令输出中的filesort

Jun 07, 2016 pm 04:31 PM
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前段时间看了 mysqlperformance blog 上一篇关于 filesort 的文章 ,看到 Percona 公司在招聘面试的时候常问应聘者“Explain 命令输出中的 filesort 的含义是什么”这个问题,而且基本上都得不到正确的答案,甚感奇怪。 按理这是非常基础的内容了,既然敢于

前段时间看了 mysqlperformance blog 上一篇关于 filesort 的文章 ,看到 Percona 公司在招聘面试的时候常问应聘者“Explain 命令输出中的 filesort 的含义是什么”这个问题,而且基本上都得不到正确的答案,甚感奇怪。

按理这是非常基础的内容了,既然敢于去 Percona 这样高手如云的公司应聘,不应该不清楚这个问题吧。

所以我也试探性的问了 MySQL圈子 中的几位朋友这个问题,结果和 Percona 所遇到的情况基本一样,仅有 1/10 的朋友真正明白 filesort 的含义,而且给出的错误答案也都和 Percona应聘者的答案差不多:是 mysql 在进行排序的时候,临时表太大,超出 MySQL 限制,需要将数据写出到磁盘文件中进行排序,所以称之为filesort。

这个“貌似正确”的答案,大部分都是因为 “filesort” 这个词的字面含义所误导猜测出来的。看来并不仅仅只有中国人喜欢“望文生义”,老外也是一样嘛!

那 Explain 命令输出信息中的 filesort 到底是什么意思呢?其实很简单,就是告诉你 MySQL 需要进行实际的排序操作而不能通过索引获得已排序数据。

个人觉得上面的错误答案其实至少错了以下两点:

  • filesort(其实就是排序) 可不一定会产生临时表哦
  • filesort 与临时表数据写入磁盘是没有任何直接联系的

上面两点错误中第一点在 MySQL Performance Blog 的文章中也提到了。

实际上,在我之前的一篇文章 MySQL ORDER BY 的实现分析 中已经很清楚的分析了 MySQL 在进行排序的时候,只有当返回的数据和排序条件不在同一个表中的时候,才需要使用到临时表。

学技术,真的是要非常严谨才行,如果我们仅仅通过字面意思来猜想其含义,而不仔细阅读文档并分析实验,很多时候得到的答案可能都是错误的。

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