Re: Caching of Queries

Added to TODO:

* Consider automatic caching of queries at various levels:
o Parsed query tree
o Query execute plan
o Query results

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Scott Kirkwood wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:03:01 +1000, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> wrote:
> > I think the conclusion of past discussions about this feature is that
> > it's a bad idea. Last I checked, MySQL has to clear the *entire* query
> > cache when a single DML statement modifying the table in question is
> > issued. Not to mention that the feature is broken for non-deterministic
> > queries (like now(), ORDER BY random(), or nextval('some_seq'), and so
> > on). That makes the feature close to useless for a lot of situations,
> > albeit not every situation.
>
> I think it's important to demark three levels of possible caching:
> 1) Caching of the parsed query tree
> 2) Caching of the query execute plan
> 3) Caching of the query results
>
> I think caching the query results (3) is pretty dangerous and
> difficult to do correctly.
>
> Caching of the the execute plan (2) is not dangerous but may actually
> execute more slowly by caching a bad plan (i.e. a plan not suited to
> the current data)
>
> Caching of the query tree (1) to me has very little downsides (except
> extra coding). But may not have a lot of win either, depending how
> much time/resources are required to parse the SQL and lookup the
> objects in the system tables (something I've never gotten a
> satisfactory answer about). Also, some of the query cache would have
> to be cleared when DDL statements are performed.
>
> -Scott
>
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