RE: Temporarily preventing index from being selected

Hi Yves,

You are right, if I return ((ha_rows)~0 - 1) the index is not selected.
However, is there any guarantee this will be always the case?

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Yves Trudeau [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 2:25 PM
To: Olivier Chédru
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Temporarily preventing index from being selected

Hi Olivier,
  Have you tried returning a very large number.  That would hint not to
use the index.

Regards,

Yves


On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 12:03 +0200, Olivier Chédru wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am developing a storage engine for MySQL 5.5. My storage engine is able to perform online index alterations.
> 
> I would like to prevent MySQL from choosing an index currently being added by the storage engine.
> 
> To do so, my handler::records_in_range() method returns HA_POS_ERROR.
> However this does not work: the index is used by the query anyway.
> 
> Any idea about how to achieve that?
> 
> Thanks
> Olivier
>