[Pdns-users] [pdns-mysql] a domain_id of type varchar

[BrightSoul]

>> an SQL function which hashes your domain name column into a number

Thanks JP, MySql has a 
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mathematical-functions.html#function_crc32
CRC32  function which does exactly what you suggested.
Resorting to that hash function will have a couple side effects, though: one
is the remote possibility of duplicate results and the other one is that all
SELECT queries on the 'records' table will be slower since MySql won't be
able to use the index that I added to the 'domain_id' column.
i.e. the WHERE clause will read ...AND CRC32(domain_id)=%d

Mysql  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/view-restrictions.html doesn't
support indexed views  either, and that's unfortunate.

All in all, I have to decide if I want to keep the schema I made (knowing
that I might encounter performance issues) or revert to the default schema.
Before deciding, I'll measure how slower it got. PowerDNS/Mysql query
caching migth mitigate this problem yielding acceptable performance.
Bye!
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