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bickfordb on Oct 11, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making full table scan 10x faster in InnoDB

Many MySQL applications expect results to be delivered in primary key order if no "order by" clause is supplied

jey on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

That seems dumb. If you require a particular ordering, you should have to specify it and it might cost extra to put the results in that order.

chris_wot on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

Then those MySQL apps are broken.

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