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Possibility to set USE/FORCE/IGNORE INDEX

Open peterpp opened this issue 6 years ago • 0 comments

I have a big table with many records (millions). For some obscure reason, SQL database keep using wrong index, so selecting few rows takes 20 seconds instead of 9 ms. It would be very helpful, if there will be a possibility to set index hints: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/index-hints.html

For example:

SELECT * 
FROM `big_table` 
USE INDEX (my_better_index)
WHERE ...

peterpp avatar Jan 10 '20 14:01 peterpp