MySQL 5.1 Database Reference Guide :: 15.15 Supporting Indexing

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15.15. Supporting Indexing

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15.15.1. Indexing Overview
15.15.2. Getting Index Information During CREATE TABLE Operations
15.15.3. Creating Index Keys
15.15.4. Parsing Key Information
15.15.5. Providing Index Information to the Optimizer
15.15.6. Preparing for Index Use with index_init()
15.15.7. Cleaning up with index_end()
15.15.8. Implementing the index_read() Function
15.15.9. Implementing the index_read_idx() Function
15.15.10. Implementing the index_next() Function
15.15.11. Implementing the index_prev() Function
15.15.12. Implementing the index_first() Function
15.15.13. Implementing the index_last() Function

Once basic read/write operations are implemented in a storage engine, the next stage is to add support for indexing. Without indexing, a storage engine's performance is quite limited.

This section documents the methods that must be implemented to add support for indexing to a storage engine.

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