テーブル (visit_url) に対する次のクエリで mysql がインデックスを使用していないのはなぜでしょうか。
> describe select sv.url from visit_url sv, result_query rq where rq.result_id = sv.result_id and rq.user_id = 'fred';
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------------------+--------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------------------+--------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | vu | ALL | result_id | NULL | NULL | NULL | 506553 | |
| 1 | SIMPLE | rq | eq_ref | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 32 | vu.result_id | 1 | Using index |
+----+-------------+-------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+------------------------+--------+-------------+
私のインデックスは次のとおりです。
mysql> show index in visit_url;
+-----------+------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment |
+-----------+------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| visit_url | 1 | result_id | 1 | result_id | A | 168851 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
| visit_url | 1 | url | 1 | url | A | 253276 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | |
+-----------+------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+-------- --+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
と
mysql> show index in result_query;
+--------------+------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment |
+--------------+------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| result_query | 0 | PRIMARY | 1 | result_id | A | 2718272 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
| result_query | 1 | query_idx | 1 | query | A | 271827 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
+--------------+------------+-----------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
visit_url には 506k のエントリがあり、result_query には 2mil のエントリがあります
どうもありがとう!