A new question has been posted to the Knowledgebase: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/indexoptimizations-in-dynamic-columns --------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetz to all... I have been playing with the dynamic columns in MariaDB 5.3... Running your test queries I decided to do an explain on one of them: MariaDB [test]> explain SELECT name FROM t1 WHERE COLUMN_GET(dynstr, 1 as char(10)) = "red"; +----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | t1 | ALL | NULL | NULL | NULL | NULL | 4 | Using where | +----+-------------+-------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+-------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) I was just curious, do dynamic columns suffer from the same perf penalties at scale that non-indexed or function-based where criteria do? If they currently do, are there currently any plans to index/optimize dynamic columns for super fast at-scale data access? Best, Joshua --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks. -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org