[Labs-l] Not seeing any indexes

Huji Lee huji.huji at gmail.com
Sat Aug 29 16:25:43 UTC 2015


Thanks. Good to know.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Morten Wang <nettrom at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as I know, there are two additional tables with specific indexes
> for queries with usernames, revision_userindex and logging_userindex.
> They're described here:
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Database#Tables_for_revision_or_logging_queries_involving_user_names_and_IDs
>
> Apart from those, I use the MediaWiki database schema as my go-to place
> for documentation:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MW/browse/master/maintenance/tables.sql
>
>
> Cheers,
> Morten
>
>
> On 29 August 2015 at 09:18, Huji Lee <huji.huji at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there documentation on the indexes used on underlying tables? (Or, how
>> they defer from default MW indexes)
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:31 PM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Neither. What you are seeing from the shared databases are views. Views
>>> do not have indexes, however the underlying data does.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Huji Lee <huji.huji at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> When I run a query like   *SELECT INDEXES FROM revision  *or any other
>>>> table on the labsdb databases (such as enwiki.labsdb) I get no results. Is
>>>> it because I don't have proper permissions, or because none of the labsdb
>>>> tables have any indexes?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Huji
>>>>
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