MySQL indexing and Using filesort

Question

This related to my last problem. I made a new two columns in the listings table, one for composed views views_point (increment every 100 view) and one for publish on date publishedon_hourly (by year-month-day hour only) to make some unique values.

This is my new table:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `listings` (   `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,   `type` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',   `hash` char(32) NOT NULL,   `source_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,   `link` varchar(255) NOT NULL,   `short_link` varchar(255) NOT NULL,   `cat_id` mediumint(5) NOT NULL,   `title` mediumtext NOT NULL,   `description` mediumtext,   `content` mediumtext,   `images` mediumtext,   `videos` mediumtext,   `views` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',   `views_point` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',   `comments` int(11) DEFAULT '0',   `comments_update` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',   `editor_id` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',   `auther_name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,   `createdby_id` int(10) NOT NULL,   `createdon` int(20) NOT NULL,   `editedby_id` int(10) NOT NULL,   `editedon` int(20) NOT NULL,   `deleted` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,   `deletedon` int(20) NOT NULL,   `deletedby_id` int(10) NOT NULL,   `deletedfor` varchar(255) NOT NULL,   `published` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',   `publishedon` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,   `publishedon_hourly` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',   `publishedby_id` int(10) NOT NULL,   PRIMARY KEY (`id`),   KEY `hash` (`hash`),   KEY `views_point` (`views_point`),   KEY `listings` (`publishedon_hourly`,`published`,`cat_id`,`source_id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 ROW_FORMAT=FIXED AUTO_INCREMENT=365513 ; 

When I run a query like this:

SELECT * FROM listings WHERE (`publishedon_hourly` BETWEEN        UNIX_TIMESTAMP( '2015-09-5 00:00:00' )        AND UNIX_TIMESTAMP( '2015-10-5 12:00:00' ))   AND (published =1)   AND cat_id IN ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ) ORDER BY by `views_point` DESC LIMIT 10  

It is working great and this the explanation:

But when I change the date range from month to day like this:

SELECT * FROM listings WHERE (`publishedon_hourly` BETWEEN        UNIX_TIMESTAMP( '2015-09-5 00:00:00' )        AND UNIX_TIMESTAMP( '2015-09-5 12:00:00' ))   AND (published =1)   AND cat_id IN ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 )   ORDER BY `views_point` DESC   LIMIT 10  

Then the query becomes slow and the filesort appears. Any one know the reason and how can I fix it?

the data sample (from the slow query)

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Answer 1

In your first query, the ORDER BY is done using the views_point INDEX, because it was used in the WHERE part of the query and therefore in MySQL can be used for sorting.

In the second query, MySQL resolves the WHERE part using a different index, listing_pcs. This cannot be used to satisfy the ORDER BY condition. MySQL uses filesort instead, which is the best option if an index cannot be used.

MySQL only uses indexes to sort if the index is the same as that used in the WHERE condition. This is what the manual means by:

In some cases, MySQL cannot use indexes to resolve the ORDER BY, although it still uses indexes to find the rows that match the WHERE clause. These cases include the following:

The key used to fetch the rows is not the same as the one used in the ORDER BY:

SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE key2=constant ORDER BY key1; 

So what can you do:

1. Try increasing your sort_buffer_size config option to make filesorting as effective as possible. Large results that are too big for the sort buffer cause MySQL to break the sort down into chunks, which is slower.

2. Force MySQL to choose a different index. It’s worth noting that different MySQL versions choose default indexes differently. Version 5.1, for example, is pretty bad as the Query Optimizer had been vastly re-written for this release and needed lots of refinement. Version 5.6 is pretty good.

   SELECT * FROM listings FORCE INDEX (views_point) WHERE (`publishedon_hourly` BETWEEN        UNIX_TIMESTAMP( '2015-09-5 00:00:00' )        AND UNIX_TIMESTAMP( '2015-09-5 12:00:00' ))   AND (published =1)   AND cat_id IN ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ) ORDER BY `views_point` DESC LIMIT 10