背景:
当用Explain查看SQL的执行计划时,里面有列显示了 key_len 的值,根据这个值可以判断索引的长度,在组合索引里面可以更清楚的了解到了哪部分字段使用到了索引。
环境:
插入数据:
insert into tmp_0612 values(1,'a',11,'hz'),(2,'b',22,'gz'),(3,'c',33,'aa');
创建索引:
alter table tmp_0612 add index idx_name(name); alter table tmp_0612 add index idx_age(age);
测试:
explain select * from tmp_0612 where name ='a'; +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | tmp_0612 | ref | idx_name | idx_name | 33 | const | 1 | Using index condition | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+
从上面的执行计划可知,索引的长度是33。比预想的30(10*3(utf8))要高出3字节,为什么呢?进一步测试:
修改name 成 not null
alter table tmp_0612 modify name varchar(10) not null;
再看执行计划:
explain select * from tmp_0612 where name ='a'; +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | tmp_0612 | ref | idx_name | idx_name | 32 | const | 1 | Using index condition | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+
发现上面的执行计划和第一次的有区别(key_len),经过多次测试,发现字段允许NULL的会多出一个字节。NULL是需要一个标志位的,占用1个字符。那还有2个字节怎么算?这里想到的是会不会和 多字节字符集 相关?那改字符集试试:
alter table tmp_0612 convert to charset latin1; explain select * from tmp_0612 where name ='a'; +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | tmp_0612 | ref | idx_name | idx_name | 12 | const | 1 | Using index condition | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+
发现还是多了2个字节,看来和多字节字符集没有关系了。那会不会和 变长字段 有关系?再试试:
alter table tmp_0612 convert to charset utf8; alter table tmp_0612 modify name char(10) not null; explain select * from tmp_0612 where name ='a'; +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | tmp_0612 | ref | idx_name | idx_name | 30 | const | 1 | Using index condition | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+
和预料的一样了,是30=10*3。到这里相信大家都已经很清楚了,要是还比较模糊就看反推到33字节。
改成允许NULL,应该会变成31。
alter table tmp_0612 modify name char(10); explain select * from tmp_0612 where name ='a'; +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | tmp_0612 | ref | idx_name | idx_name | 31 | const | 1 | Using index condition | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+
改成变长字段类型,应该会变成33。
alter table tmp_0612 modify name varchar(10); explain select * from tmp_0612 where name ='a'; +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | tmp_0612 | ref | idx_name | idx_name | 33 | const | 1 | Using index condition | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+
改成单字节字符集,还是还是需要额外的3字节(1:null ;变长字段:2),和字符集无关。
alter table tmp_0612 convert to charset latin1; explain select * from tmp_0612 where name ='a'; +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | tmp_0612 | ref | idx_name | idx_name | 13 | const | 1 | Using index condition | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+----------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------+
反推上去都和预测的一样。
其他测试:
explain select * from tmp_0612 where age = 11; +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | tmp_0612 | ref | idx_age | idx_age | 5 | const | 1 | NULL | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+ alter table tmp_0612 modify age int not null; explain select * from tmp_0612 where age = 11; +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | tmp_0612 | ref | idx_age | idx_age | 4 | const | 1 | NULL | +----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+---------+---------+-------+------+-------+
int 是占4个字符的,上面key_len的也是符合预期。关于组合索引的,可以自己去测试玩。
总结:
变长字段需要额外的2个字节,固定长度字段不需要额外的字节。而null都需要1个字节的额外空间,所以以前有个说法:索引字段最好不要为NULL,因为NULL让统计更加复杂,并且需要额外一个字节的存储空间。这个结论在此得到了证实。
key_len的长度计算公式:
varchr(10)变长字段且允许NULL : 10*(Character Set:utf8=3,gbk=2,latin1=1)+1(NULL)+2(变长字段)
varchr(10)变长字段且不允许NULL : 10*(Character Set:utf8=3,gbk=2,latin1=1)+2(变长字段)
char(10)固定字段且允许NULL : 10*(Character Set:utf8=3,gbk=2,latin1=1)+1(NULL)
char(10)固定字段且允许NULL : 10*(Character Set:utf8=3,gbk=2,latin1=1)