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  • UNION and MySQL Query Cache

    #1
    Hi -

    In this post: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/07/27/mysql-query-c ache/

    Peter says that "parts of a UNION" may not be cached.

    I don't understand this, maybe I don't understand fully how MySQL executes a UNION. So my question is can a UNION be cached and if it can which parts cannot?

    Thanks,

    --Dave
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  • #2
    I think the article is just explaining that the query cache is a very simple mapping between the text of query and its result set. MySQL doesn't really understand the query beyond it being a collection of bytes for the purposes of query cache lookup.

    So if you execute

    SELECT id FROM widgets WHERE state = 0
    UNION
    SELECT id FROM widgets WHERE state = 1

    you should expect the result set for that exact query to be cached, and not the result set for

    SELECT id FROM widgets WHERE state = 0

    or the result set for

    SELECT id FROM widgets WHERE state = 1

    unless the queries are independently executed.


    You can verify this by watching SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Qcache%' on a quiet server.

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