I have two tables: gpnxuser and key_value
mysql> describe gpnxuser;
+--------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id | bigint(20) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| version | bigint(20) | NO | | NULL | |
| email | varchar(255) | YES | | NULL | |
| uuid | varchar(255) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| partner_id | bigint(20) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| password | varchar(255) | YES | | NULL | |
| date_created | datetime | YES | | NULL | |
| last_updated | datetime | YES | | NULL | |
+--------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
and
mysql> describe key_value;
+----------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id | bigint(20) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| version | bigint(20) | NO | | NULL | |
| date_created | datetime | YES | | NULL | |
| last_updated | datetime | YES | | NULL | |
| upkey | varchar(255) | NO | MUL | NULL | |
| user_id | bigint(20) | YES | MUL | NULL | |
| security_level | int(11) | NO | | NULL | |
+----------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
key_value.user_id is an FK that references gpnxuser.id. I also have an index in gpnxuser.partner_id, which is an FK that refers to a table called "partner" (which, I think, doesn't really matter for this question).
For partner_id = 64, I have 500K lines in gpnxuser that have a relationship with about 6M lines in key_value.
I wanted to have a query that returned all the different "key_value.upkey" for a user belonging to this partner. I did something like this:
select upkey from gpnxuser join key_value on gpnxuser.id=key_value.user_id where partner_id=64 group by upkey;
which is done forever. The explanation for the request is as follows:
mysql> explain select upkey from gpnxuser join key_value on gpnxuser.id=key_value.user_id where partner_id=64 group by upkey;
+----+-------------+-----------+------+----------------------------+--------------------+---------+-----------------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------+
| id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+-----------+------+----------------------------+--------------------+---------+-----------------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | gpnxuser | ref | PRIMARY,FKB2D9FEBE725C505E | FKB2D9FEBE725C505E | 8 | const | 259640 | Using index; Using temporary; Using filesort |
| 1 | SIMPLE | key_value | ref | FK9E0C0F912D11F5A9 | FK9E0C0F912D11F5A9 | 9 | gpnx_finance_db.gpnxuser.id | 14 | Using where |
+----+-------------+-----------+------+----------------------------+--------------------+---------+-----------------------------+--------+----------------------------------------------+
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