my_indexr

About

my_indexr is a tool that outputs SQL commands for dropping and recreating indexes on MySQL databases / tables.

Features include:

• Process only certain tables
• Process non-primary or both normal and primary indexes
• Correctly handles:
  • Primary key indexes
  • Compound key / multi-column indexes
  • Index types (BTREE, etc)
  • Prefix lengths
  • Auto_increment columns, which MUST be a key (my_indexr skips indexes with these columns in them)

Usage

From the --help:

Usage: ./my_indexr [option] <database>

Show SQL queries for dropping and recreating indexes. (It does not actually
run the queries)

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u USER               Username
  -H HOST               Host
  -P PORT               Port
  -p                    Ask for passwd
  --passwd=PASSWD       Password (use -p to ask)
  --pw-from-stdin       Read password from STDIN
  -t TABLES, --tables=TABLES
                        Comma-separated list of tables to process
  --primary             Also process primary keys

Example usage:

# Generate SQL for dropping/creating indexes on `mydb`:
$ ./indexr.py -u root -p mydb > mydb_idx.sql

# Drop the indexes
$ grep -e "^DROP" mydb_idx.sql | mysql -u root -p mydb

# Recreate the indexes
$ grep -e "^CREATE" mydb_idx.sql | mysql -u root -p mydb

This is what the output of my_indexr looks like:

DROP INDEX `location` ON `idx_tst_innodb_basic`;
DROP INDEX `name_age` ON `idx_tst_innodb_basic`;
DROP INDEX `email` ON `idx_tst_innodb_basic`;
DROP INDEX `PRIMARY` ON `idx_tst_innodb_compkey`;
CREATE  INDEX `location` USING BTREE ON `idx_tst_innodb_basic` (`location_id`);
CREATE  INDEX `name_age` USING BTREE ON `idx_tst_innodb_basic` (`name`(40),`age`);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX `email` USING BTREE ON `idx_tst_innodb_basic` (`email`);
ALTER TABLE `idx_tst_innodb_compkey` ADD PRIMARY KEY (`last_name`,`first_name`);

Bugs

There may still be edge-cases which are not handled properly. If you encounter such an edge-case, please notify me. Include a schema-dump (--no-data please).

License

(MIT Liencese)

Copyright (C) 2014 Ferry Boender

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