In my rare spare time work on the Binlog Storage Engine: MySQL Proxy Edition and for a few days I was wondering why my index-based JOINs didn't worked. With a index it works, with an index nothing is returned.

I narrowed it down to a simple test-case:

select * from ...

I got a few comments about my last example not describing a wormhole, but a whitehole. Time to improve the picture a bit and getting data from another dimension on a shorter route than the long standard way.

To use the picture let's take a look at what has ...

Hartmut was asking me some time ago how table discovery in the storage engine interface works. After reading through the code from ndb, archive and memcache I was a bit disappointed: all of them are just copying the definition in binary form around.

For the wormhole SE the lua-file has ...

MySQL has a quite unique feature: the pluggable storage engine interface. Thanks to it MySQL supports different Storage Engines for different needs: MyISAM is perfect for heavy read, InnoDB for transational data and blackhole .... for sending data to /dev/null.

Thanks to some advance science we now have a wormhole ...