20.19. The INFORMATION_SCHEMA PARTITIONS Table

The PARTITIONS table provides information about table partitions. See Chapter 18, Partitioning, for more information about partitioning tables.

INFORMATION_SCHEMA NameSHOW NameRemarks
TABLE_CATALOG MySQL extension
TABLE_SCHEMA MySQL extension
TABLE_NAME MySQL extension
PARTITION_NAME MySQL extension
SUBPARTITION_NAME MySQL extension
PARTITION_ORDINAL_POSITION MySQL extension
SUBPARTITION_ORDINAL_POSITION MySQL extension
PARTITION_METHOD MySQL extension
SUBPARTITION_METHOD MySQL extension
PARTITION_EXPRESSION MySQL extension
SUBPARTITION_EXPRESSION MySQL extension
PARTITION_DESCRIPTION MySQL extension
TABLE_ROWS MySQL extension
AVG_ROW_LENGTH MySQL extension
DATA_LENGTH MySQL extension
MAX_DATA_LENGTH MySQL extension
INDEX_LENGTH MySQL extension
DATA_FREE MySQL extension
CREATE_TIME MySQL extension
UPDATE_TIME MySQL extension
CHECK_TIME MySQL extension
CHECKSUM MySQL extension
PARTITION_COMMENT MySQL extension
NODEGROUP MySQL extension
TABLESPACE_NAME MySQL extension

Notes:

  • The PARTITIONS table is a nonstandard table.

    Each record in this table corresponds to an individual partition or subpartition of a partitioned table.

  • TABLE_CATALOG: This column is always def.

  • TABLE_SCHEMA: This column contains the name of the database to which the table belongs.

  • TABLE_NAME: This column contains the name of the table containing the partition.

  • PARTITION_NAME: The name of the partition.

  • SUBPARTITION_NAME: If the PARTITIONS table record represents a subpartition, then this column contains the name of subpartition; otherwise it is NULL.

  • PARTITION_ORDINAL_POSITION: All partitions are indexed in the same order as they are defined, with 1 being the number assigned to the first partition. The indexing can change as partitions are added, dropped, and reorganized; the number shown is this column reflects the current order, taking into account any indexing changes.

  • SUBPARTITION_ORDINAL_POSITION: Subpartitions within a given partition are also indexed and reindexed in the same manner as partitions are indexed within a table.

  • PARTITION_METHOD: One of the values RANGE, LIST, HASH, LINEAR HASH, KEY, or LINEAR KEY; that is, one of the available partitioning types as discussed in Section 18.2, “Partitioning Types”.

  • SUBPARTITION_METHOD: One of the values HASH, LINEAR HASH, KEY, or LINEAR KEY; that is, one of the available subpartitioning types as discussed in Section 18.2.6, “Subpartitioning”.

  • PARTITION_EXPRESSION: This is the expression for the partitioning function used in the CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE statement that created the table's current partitioning scheme.

    For example, consider a partitioned table created in the test database using this statement:

    CREATE TABLE tp (
        c1 INT,
        c2 INT,
        c3 VARCHAR(25)
    )
    PARTITION BY HASH(c1 + c2)
    PARTITIONS 4;
    

    The PARTITION_EXPRESSION column in a PARTITIONS table record for a partition from this table displays c1 + c2, as shown here:

    mysql> SELECT DISTINCT PARTITION_EXPRESSION
         >     FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS
         >     WHERE TABLE_NAME='tp' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='test';
    +----------------------+
    | PARTITION_EXPRESSION |
    +----------------------+
    | c1 + c2              |
    +----------------------+
    1 row in set (0.09 sec)
    
  • SUBPARTITION_EXPRESSION: This works in the same fashion for the subpartitioning expression that defines the subpartitioning for a table as PARTITION_EXPRESSION does for the partitioning expression used to define a table's partitioning.

    If the table has no subpartitions, then this column is NULL.

  • PARTITION_DESCRIPTION: This column is used for RANGE and LIST partitions. For a RANGE partition, it contains the value set in the partition's VALUES LESS THAN clause, which can be either an integer or MAXVALUE. For a LIST partition, this column contains the values defined in the partition's VALUES IN clause, which is a comma-separated list of integer values.

    For partitions whose PARTITION_METHOD is other than RANGE or LIST, this column is always NULL.

  • TABLE_ROWS: The number of table rows in the partition.

    For partitioned InnoDB tables, the row count given in the TABLE_ROWS column is only an estimated value used in SQL optimization, and may not always be exact.

  • AVG_ROW_LENGTH: The average length of the rows stored in this partition or subpartition, in bytes.

    This is the same as DATA_LENGTH divided by TABLE_ROWS.

  • DATA_LENGTH: The total length of all rows stored in this partition or subpartition, in bytes—that is, the total number of bytes stored in the partition or subpartition.

  • MAX_DATA_LENGTH: The maximum number of bytes that can be stored in this partition or subpartition.

  • INDEX_LENGTH: The length of the index file for this partition or subpartition, in bytes.

  • DATA_FREE: The number of bytes allocated to the partition or subpartition but not used.

  • CREATE_TIME: The time of the partition's or subpartition's creation.

  • UPDATE_TIME: The time that the partition or subpartition was last modified.

  • CHECK_TIME: The last time that the table to which this partition or subpartition belongs was checked.

    Note

    Some storage engines do not update this time; for tables using these storage engines, this value is always NULL.

  • CHECKSUM: The checksum value, if any; otherwise, this column is NULL.

  • PARTITION_COMMENT: This column contains the text of any comment made for the partition.

    The default value for this column is an empty string.

  • NODEGROUP: This is the nodegroup to which the partition belongs. This is relevant only to MySQL Cluster tables; otherwise the value of this column is always 0.

  • TABLESPACE_NAME: This column contains the name of the tablespace to which the partition belongs. Currently, the value of this column is always DEFAULT.

  • A nonpartitioned table has one record in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARTITIONS; however, the values of the PARTITION_NAME, SUBPARTITION_NAME, PARTITION_ORDINAL_POSITION, SUBPARTITION_ORDINAL_POSITION, PARTITION_METHOD, SUBPARTITION_METHOD, PARTITION_EXPRESSION, SUBPARTITION_EXPRESSION, and PARTITION_DESCRIPTION columns are all NULL. (The PARTITION_COMMENT column in this case is blank.)

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