I'm trying to fetch 100 posts and order them by the number of times they've been "remixed" in the last week. Here is my query thus far:
SELECT COUNT(remixes.post_id) AS count, posts.title
FROM posts
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT * FROM remixes WHERE created_at >= 1343053513
) AS remixes ON posts.id = remixes.post_id
GROUP BY posts.id
ORDER BY count DESC, posts.created_at DESC
LIMIT 100
This produces the correct result; however, after running DESCRIBE
I get this:
And here are my indexes on posts
:
And my indexes on remixes
:
And here are my questions:
- Can you explain what the terms used in the extra column are really trying to tell me?
- Could you provide tips on how I can optimize this query so that it'll scale better.
Thanks in advance!
Update
Per Zane's solution, I've updated my query to:
SELECT COUNT(remixes.post_id) AS count, posts.title
FROM posts
LEFT JOIN remixes ON posts.id = remixes.post_id AND remixes.created_at >= 1343053513
GROUP BY posts.id
ORDER BY count DESC, posts.created_at DESC
LIMIT 100
And here's the latest DESCRIBE
I'm still worried about the filesort
part. Any ideas?