4.6.4.5 Obtaining Table Information with myisamchk

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To obtain a description of a MyISAM table or statistics about it, use the commands shown here. The output from these commands is explained later in this section.

myisamchk -d tbl_name
Runs myisamchk in “describe mode” to produce a description of your table. If you start the MySQL server with external locking disabled, myisamchk may report an error for a table that is updated while it runs. However, because myisamchk does not change the table in describe mode, there is no risk of destroying data.
myisamchk -dv tbl_name
Adding -v runs myisamchk in verbose mode so that it produces more information about the table. Adding -v a second time produces even more information.
myisamchk -eis tbl_name
Shows only the most important information from a table. This operation is slow because it must read the entire table.
myisamchk -eiv tbl_name
This is like -eis, but tells you what is being done.

The tbl_name argument can be either the name of a MyISAM table or the name of its index file, as described in Section 4.6.4, “myisamchk — MyISAM Table-Maintenance Utility”. Multiple tbl_name arguments can be given.

Suppose that a table named person has the following structure. (The MAX_ROWS table option is included so that in the example output from myisamchk shown later, some values are smaller and fit the output format more easily.)

CREATE TABLE person
(
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
last_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
first_name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
birth DATE,
death DATE,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
INDEX (last_name, first_name),
INDEX (birth)
) MAX_ROWS = 1000000 ENGINE=MYISAM;

Suppose also that the table has these data and index file sizes:

-rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql  9347072 Aug 19 11:47 person.MYD
-rw-rw----  1 mysql  mysql  6066176 Aug 19 11:47 person.MYI

Example of myisamchk -dvv output:

MyISAM file:         person
Record format:       Packed
Character set:       utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci (255)
File-version:        1
Creation time:       2017-03-30 21:21:30
Status:              checked,analyzed,optimized keys,sorted index pages
Auto increment key:              1  Last value:                306688
Data records:               306688  Deleted blocks:                 0
Datafile parts:             306688  Deleted data:                   0
Datafile pointer (bytes):        4  Keyfile pointer (bytes):        3
Datafile length:           9347072  Keyfile length:           6066176
Max datafile length:    4294967294  Max keyfile length:   17179868159
Recordlength:                   54

table description:
Key Start Len Index   Type                     Rec/key         Root  Blocksize
1   2     4   unique  long                           1                    1024
2   6     80  multip. varchar prefix                 0                    1024
    87    80          varchar                        0
3   168   3   multip. uint24 NULL                    0                    1024

Field Start Length Nullpos Nullbit Type
1     1     1                                                         
2     2     4                      no zeros                           
3     6     81                     varchar                            
4     87    81                     varchar                            
5     168   3      1       1       no zeros                           
6     171   3      1       2       no zeros

Explanations for the types of information myisamchk produces are given here. “Keyfile” refers to the index file. “Record” and “row” are synonymous, as are “field” and “column.”

The initial part of the table description contains these values:

MyISAM file
Name of the MyISAM (index) file.
Record format
The format used to store table rows. The preceding examples use Fixed length. Other possible values are Compressed and Packed. (Packed corresponds to what SHOW TABLE STATUS reports as Dynamic.)
Chararacter set
The table default character set.
File-version
Version of MyISAM format. Always 1.
Creation time
When the data file was created.
Recover time
When the index/data file was last reconstructed.
Status
Table status flags. Possible values are crashed, open, changed, analyzed, optimized keys, and sorted index pages.
Auto increment key, Last value
The key number associated the table's AUTO_INCREMENT column, and the most recently generated value for this column. These fields do not appear if there is no such column.
Data records
The number of rows in the table.
Deleted blocks
How many deleted blocks still have reserved space. You can optimize your table to minimize this space. See Section 7.6.4, “MyISAM Table Optimization”.
Datafile parts
For dynamic-row format, this indicates how many data blocks there are. For an optimized table without fragmented rows, this is the same as Data records.
Deleted data
How many bytes of unreclaimed deleted data there are. You can optimize your table to minimize this space. See Section 7.6.4, “MyISAM Table Optimization”.
Datafile pointer
The size of the data file pointer, in bytes. It is usually 2, 3, 4, or 5 bytes. Most tables manage with 2 bytes, but this cannot be controlled from MySQL yet. For fixed tables, this is a row address. For dynamic tables, this is a byte address.
Keyfile pointer
The size of the index file pointer, in bytes. It is usually 1, 2, or 3 bytes. Most tables manage with 2 bytes, but this is calculated automatically by MySQL. It is always a block address.
Max datafile length
How long the table data file can become, in bytes.
Max keyfile length
How long the table index file can become, in bytes.
Recordlength
How much space each row takes, in bytes.

The table description part of the output includes a list of all keys in the table. For each key, myisamchk displays some low-level information:

Key
This key's number. This value is shown only for the first column of the key. If this value is missing, the line corresponds to the second or later column of a multiple-column key. For the table shown in the example, there are two table description lines for the second index. This indicates that it is a multiple-part index with two parts.
Start
Where in the row this portion of the index starts.
Len
How long this portion of the index is. For packed numbers, this should always be the full length of the column. For strings, it may be shorter than the full length of the indexed column, because you can index a prefix of a string column. The total length of a multiple-part key is the sum of the Len values for all key parts.
Index
Whether a key value can exist multiple times in the index. Possible values are unique or multip. (multiple).
Type
What data type this portion of the index has. This is a MyISAM data type with the possible values packed, stripped, or empty.
Root
Address of the root index block.
Blocksize
The size of each index block. By default this is 1024, but the value may be changed at compile time when MySQL is built from source.
Rec/key
This is a statistical value used by the optimizer. It tells how many rows there are per value for this index. A unique index always has a value of 1. This may be updated after a table is loaded (or greatly changed) with myisamchk -a. If this is not updated at all, a default value of 30 is given.

The last part of the output provides information about each column:

Field
The column number.
Start
The byte position of the column within table rows.
Length
The length of the column in bytes.
Nullpos, Nullbit
For columns that can be NULL, MyISAM stores NULL values as a flag in a byte. Depending on how many nullable columns there are, there can be one or more bytes used for this purpose. The Nullpos and Nullbit values, if nonempty, indicate which byte and bit contains that flag indicating whether the column is NULL.
The position and number of bytes used to store NULL flags is shown in the line for field 1. This is why there are six Field lines for the person table even though it has only five columns.
Type
The data type. The value may contain any of the following descriptors:
- constant
  All rows have the same value.
- no endspace
  Do not store endspace.
- no endspace, not_always
  Do not store endspace and do not do endspace compression for all values.
- no endspace, no empty
  Do not store endspace. Do not store empty values.
- table-lookup
  The column was converted to an ENUM.
- zerofill(N)
  The most significant N bytes in the value are always 0 and are not stored.
- no zeros
  Do not store zeros.
- always zero
  Zero values are stored using one bit.
Huff tree
The number of the Huffman tree associated with the column.
Bits
The number of bits used in the Huffman tree.

The Huff tree and Bits fields are displayed if the table has been compressed with myisampack. See Section 4.6.6, “myisampack — Generate Compressed, Read-Only MyISAM Tables”, for an example of this information.

Example of myisamchk -eiv output:

Checking MyISAM file: person
Data records:  306688   Deleted blocks:       0
- check file-size
- check record delete-chain
No recordlinks
- check key delete-chain
block_size 1024:
- check index reference
- check data record references index: 1
Key:  1:  Keyblocks used:  98%  Packed:    0%  Max levels:  3
- check data record references index: 2
Key:  2:  Keyblocks used:  99%  Packed:   97%  Max levels:  3
- check data record references index: 3
Key:  3:  Keyblocks used:  98%  Packed:  -14%  Max levels:  3
Total:    Keyblocks used:  98%  Packed:   89%

- check records and index references
*** LOTS OF ROW NUMBERS DELETED ***

Records:            306688  M.recordlength:       25  Packed:            83%
Recordspace used:       97% Empty space:           2% Blocks/Record:   1.00
Record blocks:      306688  Delete blocks:         0
Record data:       7934464  Deleted data:          0
Lost space:         256512  Linkdata:        1156096

User time 43.08, System time 1.68
Maximum resident set size 0, Integral resident set size 0
Non-physical pagefaults 0, Physical pagefaults 0, Swaps 0
Blocks in 0 out 7, Messages in 0 out 0, Signals 0
Voluntary context switches 0, Involuntary context switches 0
Maximum memory usage: 1046926 bytes (1023k)

myisamchk -eiv output includes the following information:

Data records
The number of rows in the table.
Deleted blocks
How many deleted blocks still have reserved space. You can optimize your table to minimize this space. See Section 7.6.4, “MyISAM Table Optimization”.
Key
The key number.
Keyblocks used
What percentage of the keyblocks are used. When a table has just been reorganized with myisamchk, the values are very high (very near theoretical maximum).
Packed
MySQL tries to pack key values that have a common suffix. This can only be used for indexes on CHAR and VARCHAR columns. For long indexed strings that have similar leftmost parts, this can significantly reduce the space used. In the preceding example, the second key is 40 bytes long and a 97% reduction in space is achieved.
Max levels
How deep the B-tree for this key is. Large tables with long key values get high values.
Records
How many rows are in the table.
M.recordlength
The average row length. This is the exact row length for tables with fixed-length rows, because all rows have the same length.
Packed
MySQL strips spaces from the end of strings. The Packed value indicates the percentage of savings achieved by doing this.
Recordspace used
What percentage of the data file is used.
Empty space
What percentage of the data file is unused.
Blocks/Record
Average number of blocks per row (that is, how many links a fragmented row is composed of). This is always 1.0 for fixed-format tables. This value should stay as close to 1.0 as possible. If it gets too large, you can reorganize the table. See Section 7.6.4, “MyISAM Table Optimization”.
Recordblocks
How many blocks (links) are used. For fixed-format tables, this is the same as the number of rows.
Deleteblocks
How many blocks (links) are deleted.
Recorddata
How many bytes in the data file are used.
Deleted data
How many bytes in the data file are deleted (unused).
Lost space
If a row is updated to a shorter length, some space is lost. This is the sum of all such losses, in bytes.
Linkdata
When the dynamic table format is used, row fragments are linked with pointers (4 to 7 bytes each). Linkdata is the sum of the amount of storage used by all such pointers.

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