myisampack(1)
NAME
myisampack - generate compressed, read-only MyISAM tables
SYNOPSIS
myisampack [options] file_name ...
DESCRIPTION
The myisampack utility compresses MyISAM tables.
myisampack works by compressing each column in the table
separately. Usually, myisampack packs the data file
40%-70%.
When the table is used later, the server reads into memory
the information needed to decompress columns. This results
in much better performance when accessing individual rows,
because you only have to uncompress exactly one row.
MySQL uses mmap() when possible to perform memory mapping
on compressed tables. If mmap() does not work, MySQL falls
back to normal read/write file operations.
Please note the following:
o If the mysqld server was invoked with external locking
disabled, it is not a good idea to invoke myisampack if
the table might be updated by the server during the
packing process. It is safest to compress tables with
the server stopped.
o After packing a table, it becomes read-only. This is
generally intended (such as when accessing packed
tables on a CD). Allowing writes to a packed table is
on our TODO list, but with low priority.
o myisampack can pack BLOB or TEXT columns. (The older
pack_isam program for ISAM tables did not have this
capability.)
Invoke myisampack like this:
shell> myisampack [options] file_name ...
Each filename argument should be the name of an index
(.MYI) file. If you are not in the database directory, you
should specify the pathname to the file. It is permissible
to omit the extension.
After you compress a table with myisampack, you should use
myisamchk -rq to rebuild its indexes. myisamchk(1).
myisampack supports the following options:
o --help, -?
Display a help message and exit.
o --backup, -b
Make a backup of each table's data file using the name
tbl_name.OLD.
o --character-sets-dir=path
The directory where character sets are installed. See
Section 9.1, "The Character Set Used for Data and
Sorting".
o --debug[=debug_options], -# [debug_options]
Write a debugging log. The debug_options string often
is 'd:t:o,file_name'.
o --force, -f
Produce a packed table even if it becomes larger than
the original or if the intermediate file from an
earlier invocation of myisampack exists. (myisampack
creates an intermediate file named tbl_name.TMD in the
database directory while it compresses the table. If
you kill myisampack, the file might not be deleted.)
Normally, myisampack exits with an error if it finds
that tbl_name.TMD exists. With --force, myisampack
packs the table anyway.
o --join=big_tbl_name, -j big_tbl_name
Join all tables named on the command line into a single
table big_tbl_name. All tables that are to be combined
must have identical structure (same column names and
types, same indexes, and so forth).
o --packlength=len, -p len
Specify the row length storage size, in bytes. The
value should be 1, 2, or 3. myisampack stores all rows
with length pointers of 1, 2, or 3 bytes. In most
normal cases, myisampack can determine the correct
length value before it begins packing the file, but it
may notice during the packing process that it could
have used a shorter length. In this case, myisampack
prints a note that you could use a shorter row length
the next time you pack the same file.
o --silent, -s
Silent mode. Write output only when errors occur.
o --test, -t
Do not actually pack the table, just test packing it.
o --tmpdir=path, -T path
Use the named directory as the location where myisamchk
creates temporary files.
o --verbose, -v
Verbose mode. Write information about the progress of
the packing operation and its result.
o --version, -V
Display version information and exit.
o --wait, -w
Wait and retry if the table is in use. If the mysqld
server was invoked with external locking disabled, it
is not a good idea to invoke myisampack if the table
might be updated by the server during the packing
process.
The following sequence of commands illustrates a typical
table compression session:
shell> ls -l station.*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 monty my 994128 Apr 17 19:00 station.MYD
-rw-rw-r-- 1 monty my 53248 Apr 17 19:00 station.MYI
-rw-rw-r-- 1 monty my 5767 Apr 17 19:00 station.frm
shell> myisamchk -dvv station
MyISAM file: station
Isam-version: 2
Creation time: 1996-03-13 10:08:58
Recover time: 1997-02-02 3:06:43
Data records: 1192 Deleted blocks: 0
Datafile parts: 1192 Deleted data: 0
Datafile pointer (bytes): 2 Keyfile pointer (bytes): 2
Max datafile length: 54657023 Max keyfile length: 33554431
Recordlength: 834
Record format: Fixed length
table description:
Key Start Len Index Type Root Blocksize Rec/key
1 2 4 unique unsigned long 1024 1024 1
2 32 30 multip. text 10240 1024 1
Field Start Length Type
1 1 1
2 2 4
3 6 4
4 10 1
5 11 20
6 31 1
7 32 30
8 62 35
9 97 35
10 132 35
11 167 4
12 171 16
13 187 35
14 222 4
15 226 16
16 242 20
17 262 20
18 282 20
19 302 30
20 332 4
21 336 4
22 340 1
23 341 8
24 349 8
25 357 8
26 365 2
27 367 2
28 369 4
29 373 4
30 377 1
31 378 2
32 380 8
33 388 4
34 392 4
35 396 4
36 400 4
37 404 1
38 405 4
39 409 4
40 413 4
41 417 4
42 421 4
43 425 4
44 429 20
45 449 30
46 479 1
47 480 1
48 481 79
49 560 79
50 639 79
51 718 79
52 797 8
53 805 1
54 806 1
55 807 20
56 827 4
57 831 4
shell> myisampack station.MYI
Compressing station.MYI: (1192 records)
- Calculating statistics
normal: 20 empty-space: 16 empty-zero: 12 empty-fill: 11
pre-space: 0 end-space: 12 table-lookups: 5 zero: 7
Original trees: 57 After join: 17
- Compressing file
87.14%
Remember to run myisamchk -rq on compressed tables
shell> ls -l station.*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 monty my 127874 Apr 17 19:00 station.MYD
-rw-rw-r-- 1 monty my 55296 Apr 17 19:04 station.MYI
-rw-rw-r-- 1 monty my 5767 Apr 17 19:00 station.frm
shell> myisamchk -dvv station
MyISAM file: station
Isam-version: 2
Creation time: 1996-03-13 10:08:58
Recover time: 1997-04-17 19:04:26
Data records: 1192 Deleted blocks: 0
Datafile parts: 1192 Deleted data: 0
Datafile pointer (bytes): 3 Keyfile pointer (bytes): 1
Max datafile length: 16777215 Max keyfile length: 131071
Recordlength: 834
Record format: Compressed
table description:
Key Start Len Index Type Root Blocksize Rec/key
1 2 4 unique unsigned long 10240 1024 1
2 32 30 multip. text 54272 1024 1
Field Start Length Type Huff tree Bits
1 1 1 constant 1 0
2 2 4 zerofill(1) 2 9
3 6 4 no zeros, zerofill(1) 2 9
4 10 1 3 9
5 11 20 table-lookup 4 0
6 31 1 3 9
7 32 30 no endspace, not_always 5 9
8 62 35 no endspace, not_always, no empty 6 9
9 97 35 no empty 7 9
10 132 35 no endspace, not_always, no empty 6 9
11 167 4 zerofill(1) 2 9
12 171 16 no endspace, not_always, no empty 5 9
13 187 35 no endspace, not_always, no empty 6 9
14 222 4 zerofill(1) 2 9
15 226 16 no endspace, not_always, no empty 5 9
16 242 20 no endspace, not_always 8 9
17 262 20 no endspace, no empty 8 9
18 282 20 no endspace, no empty 5 9
19 302 30 no endspace, no empty 6 9
20 332 4 always zero 2 9
21 336 4 always zero 2 9
22 340 1 3 9
23 341 8 table-lookup 9 0
24 349 8 table-lookup 10 0
25 357 8 always zero 2 9
26 365 2 2 9
27 367 2 no zeros, zerofill(1) 2 9
28 369 4 no zeros, zerofill(1) 2 9
29 373 4 table-lookup 11 0
30 377 1 3 9
31 378 2 no zeros, zerofill(1) 2 9
32 380 8 no zeros 2 9
33 388 4 always zero 2 9
34 392 4 table-lookup 12 0
35 396 4 no zeros, zerofill(1) 13 9
36 400 4 no zeros, zerofill(1) 2 9
37 404 1 2 9
38 405 4 no zeros 2 9
39 409 4 always zero 2 9
40 413 4 no zeros 2 9
41 417 4 always zero 2 9
42 421 4 no zeros 2 9
43 425 4 always zero 2 9
44 429 20 no empty 3 9
45 449 30 no empty 3 9
46 479 1 14 4
47 480 1 14 4
48 481 79 no endspace, no empty 15 9
49 560 79 no empty 2 9
50 639 79 no empty 2 9
51 718 79 no endspace 16 9
52 797 8 no empty 2 9
53 805 1 17 1
54 806 1 3 9
55 807 20 no empty 3 9
56 827 4 no zeros, zerofill(2) 2 9
57 831 4 no zeros, zerofill(1) 2 9
myisampack displays the following kinds of information:
o normal
The number of columns for which no extra packing is
used.
o empty-space
The number of columns containing values that are only
spaces. These occupy one bit.
o empty-zero
The number of columns containing values that are only
binary zeros. These occupy one bit.
o empty-fill
The number of integer columns that do not occupy the
full byte range of their type. These are changed to a
smaller type. For example, a BIGINT column (eight
bytes) can be stored as a TINYINT column (one byte) if
all its values are in the range from -128 to 127.
o pre-space
The number of decimal columns that are stored with
leading spaces. In this case, each value contains a
count for the number of leading spaces.
o end-space
The number of columns that have a lot of trailing
spaces. In this case, each value contains a count for
the number of trailing spaces.
o table-lookup
The column had only a small number of different values,
which were converted to an ENUM before Huffman
compression.
o zero
The number of columns for which all values are zero.
o Original trees
The initial number of Huffman trees.
o After join
The number of distinct Huffman trees left after joining
trees to save some header space.
After a table has been compressed, myisamchk -dvv prints
additional information about each column:
o Type
The data type. The value may contain any of the
following descriptors:
o constant
All rows have the same value.
o no endspace
Do not store endspace.
o no endspace, not_always
Do not store endspace and do not do endspace
compression for all values.
o no endspace, no empty
Do not store endspace. Do not store empty values.
o table-lookup
The column was converted to an ENUM.
o zerofill(N)
The most significant N bytes in the value are always
0 and are not stored.
o no zeros
Do not store zeros.
o always zero
Zero values are stored using one bit.
o Huff tree
The number of the Huffman tree associated with the
column.
o Bits
The number of bits used in the Huffman tree.
After you run myisampack, you must run myisamchk to
re-create any indexes. At this time, you can also sort the
index blocks and create statistics needed for the MySQL
optimizer to work more efficiently:
shell> myisamchk -rq --sort-index --analyze tbl_name.MYI
After you have installed the packed table into the MySQL
database directory, you should execute mysqladmin
flush-tables to force mysqld to start using the new table.
To unpack a packed table, use the --unpack option to
myisamchk.
SEE ALSO
msql2mysql(1), myisamchk(1), myisamlog(1), mysql(1),
mysql.server(1), mysql_config(1),
mysql_fix_privilege_tables(1), mysql_upgrade(1),
mysql_zap(1), mysqlaccess(1), mysqladmin(1),
mysqlbinlog(1), mysqlcheck(1), mysqld(1), mysqld_multi(1),
mysqld_safe(1), mysqldump(1), mysqlhotcopy(1),
mysqlimport(1), mysqlmanager(1), mysqlshow(1), perror(1),
replace(1), safe_mysqld(1)
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference
Manual, which may already be installed locally and which
is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.
AUTHOR
MySQL AB (http://www.mysql.com/). This software comes
with no warranty.
MySQL 5.0 03/04/2006 FBMYISAMPACKFR(1)
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