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Bug 27938 - Special:Fewestrevisions has a very expensive query that filesorts and uses a temporary table
Special:Fewestrevisions has a very expensive query that filesorts and uses a ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Special pages (Other open bugs)
1.18.x
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: 26394 39661
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Reported: 2011-03-08 16:49 UTC by Sam Reed (reedy)
Modified: 2014-08-04 00:32 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Sam Reed (reedy) 2011-03-08 16:49:52 UTC
http://translatewiki.net/sandwiki/profileinfo.php?sort=time_per_call&expand=SQL+Queries


Name	Time (%)	Memory (%)	Count	Calls/req	ms/call	kb/call	ms/req	kb/req
Special:Fewestrevisions	0.5%	0%	1	0	54813.9	3212.59	1.18	0.07
Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2011-03-08 17:01:10 UTC
mysql> describe SELECT  page_namespace AS namespace,page_title AS title,COUNT(*) AS value,page_is_redirect AS redirect  FROM `mw_revision`,`mw_page`  WHERE page_namespace = '0' AND (page_id = rev_page)  GROUP BY page_namespace, page_title, page_is_redirect HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 ORDER BY value LIMIT 50\G
+----+-------------+-------------+------+----------------------------+-------------+---------+------------------------+------+----------------------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table       | type | possible_keys              | key         | key_len | ref                    | rows | Extra                                        |
+----+-------------+-------------+------+----------------------------+-------------+---------+------------------------+------+----------------------------------------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | mw_page     | ref  | PRIMARY,name_title         | name_title  | 4       | const                  |    3 | Using where; Using temporary; Using filesort |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | mw_revision | ref  | rev_page_id,page_timestamp | rev_page_id | 4       | wikidb.mw_page.page_id |    1 | Using index                                  |
+----+-------------+-------------+------+----------------------------+-------------+---------+------------------------+------+----------------------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)


It's using temporary and filesorting...
Comment 2 Roan Kattouw 2011-03-09 11:02:56 UTC
That's why it's marked as expensive :)
Comment 3 db [inactive,noenotif] 2012-09-16 07:40:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> That's why it's marked as expensive :)

Sounds like WORKSFORME than ;-)

Please change summary, if you want that special page as "cheap".
Comment 4 Bawolff (Brian Wolff) 2014-08-04 00:32:35 UTC
(In reply to db from comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > That's why it's marked as expensive :)
> 
> Sounds like WORKSFORME than ;-)
> 
> Please change summary, if you want that special page as "cheap".

I'm going to mark this as WONTFIX. The special page is marked as "expensive", and I don't see any obvious way of making the query any cheaper

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