PT-DUPLICATE-KEY-CHECKER(1)

NAME
pt-duplicate-key-checker - Find duplicate indexes and foreign keys on MySQL tables.

SYNOPSIS
Usage: pt-duplicate-key-checker [OPTION...] [DSN]

pt-duplicate-key-checker examines MySQL tables for duplicate or redundant indexes and foreign keys. Connection options are read from MySQL option files.

   pt-duplicate-key-checker --host host1

RISKS
The following section is included to inform users about the potential risks, whether known or unknown, of using this tool. The two main categories of risks are those created by the nature of the tool (e.g. read-only tools vs. read-write tools) and those created by bugs.

pt-duplicate-key-checker is a read-only tool that executes SHOW CREATE TABLE and related queries to inspect table structures, and thus is very low-risk.

At the time of this release, there is an unconfirmed bug that causes the tool to crash.

The authoritative source for updated information is always the online issue tracking system. Issues that affect this tool will be marked as such. You can see a list of such issues at the following URL: http://www.percona.com/bugs/pt-duplicate-key-checker <http://www.percona.com/bugs/pt-duplicate-key-checker>.

See also "BUGS" for more information on filing bugs and getting help.

DESCRIPTION
This program examines the output of SHOW CREATE TABLE on MySQL tables, and if it finds indexes that cover the same columns as another index in the same order, or cover an exact leftmost prefix of another index, it prints out the suspicious indexes. By default, indexes must be of the same type, so a BTREE index is not a duplicate of a FULLTEXT index, even if they have the same columns. You can override this.

It also looks for duplicate foreign keys. A duplicate foreign key covers the same columns as another in the same table, and references the same parent table.

OPTIONS
This tool accepts additional command-line arguments. Refer to the "SYNOPSIS" and usage information for details.

--all-structs
    Compare indexes with different structs (BTREE, HASH, etc).

    By default this is disabled, because a BTREE index that covers the same columns as a FULLTEXT index is not really a duplicate, for example.

--ask-pass
    Prompt for a password when connecting to MySQL.

--charset
    short form: -A; type: string

    Default character set. If the value is utf8, sets Perl's binmode on STDOUT to utf8, passes the mysql_enable_utf8 option to DBD::mysql, and runs SET NAMES UTF8 after connecting to MySQL. Any other value sets binmode on STDOUT without the utf8 layer, and runs SET NAMES after connecting to MySQL.

--[no]clustered
    default: yes

    PK columns appended to secondary key is duplicate.

    Detects when a suffix of a secondary key is a leftmost prefix of the primary key, and treats it as a duplicate key. Only detects this condition on storage engines whose primary keys are clustered (currently InnoDB and solidDB).

    Clustered storage engines append the primary key columns to the leaf nodes of all secondary keys anyway, so you might consider it redundant to have them appear in the internal nodes as well. Of course, you may also want them in the internal nodes, because just having them at the leaf nodes won't help for some queries. It does help for covering index queries, however.

    Here's an example of a key that is considered redundant with this option:

      PRIMARY KEY  (`a`)
      KEY `b` (`b`,`a`)

    The use of such indexes is rather subtle. For example, suppose you have the following query:

      SELECT ... WHERE b=1 ORDER BY a;

    This query will do a filesort if we remove the index on "b,a". But if we shorten the index on "b,a" to just "b" and also remove the ORDER BY, the query should return the same results.

    The tool suggests shortening duplicate clustered keys by dropping the key and re-adding it without the primary key prefix. The shortened clustered key may still duplicate another key, but the tool cannot currently detect when this happens without being ran a second time to re-check the newly shortened clustered keys. Therefore, if you shorten any duplicate clustered keys, you should run the tool again.

--config
    type: Array

    Read this comma-separated list of config files; if specified, this must be the first option on the command line.

--databases
    short form: -d; type: hash

    Check only this comma-separated list of databases.

--defaults-file
    short form: -F; type: string

    Only read mysql options from the given file. You must give an absolute pathname.

--engines
    short form: -e; type: hash

    Check only tables whose storage engine is in this comma-separated list.

--help
    Show help and exit.

--host
    short form: -h; type: string

    Connect to host.

--ignore-databases
    type: Hash

    Ignore this comma-separated list of databases.

--ignore-engines
    type: Hash

    Ignore this comma-separated list of storage engines.

--ignore-order
    Ignore index order so KEY(a,b) duplicates KEY(b,a).

--ignore-tables
    type: Hash

    Ignore this comma-separated list of tables. Table names may be qualified with the database name.

--key-types
    type: string; default: fk

    Check for duplicate f=foreign keys, k=keys or fk=both.

--password
    short form: -p; type: string

    Password to use when connecting.

--pid
    type: string

    Create the given PID file. The file contains the process ID of the script. The PID file is removed when the script exits. Before starting, the script checks if the PID file already exists. If it does not, then the script creates and writes its own PID to it. If it does, then the script checks the following: if the file contains a PID and a process is running with that PID, then the script dies; or, if there is no process running with that PID, then the script overwrites the file with its own PID and starts; else, if the file contains no PID, then the script dies.

--port
    short form: -P; type: int

    Port number to use for connection.

--set-vars
    type: string; default: wait_timeout=10000

    Set these MySQL variables. Immediately after connecting to MySQL, this string will be appended to SET and executed.

--socket
    short form: -S; type: string

    Socket file to use for connection.

--[no]sql
    default: yes

    Print DROP KEY statement for each duplicate key. By default an ALTER TABLE DROP KEY statement is printed below each duplicate key so that, if you want to remove the duplicate key, you can copy-paste the statement into MySQL.

    To disable printing these statements, specify "--no-sql".

--[no]summary
    default: yes

    Print summary of indexes at end of output.

--tables
    short form: -t; type: hash

    Check only this comma-separated list of tables.

    Table names may be qualified with the database name.

--user
    short form: -u; type: string

    User for login if not current user.

--verbose
    short form: -v

    Output all keys and/or foreign keys found, not just redundant ones.

--version
    Show version and exit.

DSN OPTIONS
These DSN options are used to create a DSN. Each option is given like "option=value". The options are case-sensitive, so P and p are not the same option. There cannot be whitespace before or after the "=" and if the value contains whitespace it must be quoted. DSN options are comma-separated. See the percona-toolkit manpage for full details.

•   A

    dsn: charset; copy: yes

    Default character set.

•   D

    dsn: database; copy: yes

    Default database.

•   F

    dsn: mysql_read_default_file; copy: yes

    Only read default options from the given file

•   h

    dsn: host; copy: yes

    Connect to host.

•   p

    dsn: password; copy: yes

    Password to use when connecting.

•   P

    dsn: port; copy: yes

    Port number to use for connection.

•   S

    dsn: mysql_socket; copy: yes

    Socket file to use for connection.

•   u

    dsn: user; copy: yes

    User for login if not current user.

ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable "PTDEBUG" enables verbose debugging output to STDERR. To enable debugging and capture all output to a file, run the tool like:

   PTDEBUG=1 pt-duplicate-key-checker ... > FILE 2>&1

Be careful: debugging output is voluminous and can generate several megabytes of output.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
You need Perl, DBI, DBD::mysql, and some core packages that ought to be installed in any reasonably new version of Perl.

BUGS
For a list of known bugs, see http://www.percona.com/bugs/pt-duplicate-key-checker <http://www.percona.com/bugs/pt-duplicate-key-checker>.

Please report bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-toolkit <https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-toolkit>. Include the following information in your bug report:

•   Complete command-line used to run the tool

•   Tool "--version"

•   MySQL version of all servers involved

•   Output from the tool including STDERR

•   Input files (log/dump/config files, etc.)

If possible, include debugging output by running the tool with "PTDEBUG"; see "ENVIRONMENT".

DOWNLOADING
Visit http://www.percona.com/software/percona-toolkit/ <http://www.percona.com/software/percona-toolkit/> to download the latest release of Percona Toolkit. Or, get the latest release from the command line:

   wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.tar.gz

   wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.rpm

   wget percona.com/get/percona-toolkit.deb

You can also get individual tools from the latest release:

   wget percona.com/get/TOOL

Replace "TOOL" with the name of any tool.

AUTHORS
Baron Schwartz and Daniel Nichter

ABOUT PERCONA TOOLKIT
This tool is part of Percona Toolkit, a collection of advanced command-line tools developed by Percona for MySQL support and consulting. Percona Toolkit was forked from two projects in June, 2011: Maatkit and Aspersa. Those projects were created by Baron Schwartz and developed primarily by him and Daniel Nichter, both of whom are employed by Percona. Visit <http://www.percona.com/software/> for more software developed by Percona.

COPYRIGHT, LICENSE, AND WARRANTY
This program is copyright 2007-2011 Baron Schwartz, 2011-2012 Percona Inc. Feedback and improvements are welcome.

THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2; OR the Perl Artistic License. On UNIX and similar systems, you can issue `man perlgpl' or `man perlartistic' to read these licenses.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

VERSION
pt-duplicate-key-checker 2.1.2