I transfer part of MySQL database from one server to another using XML. In this XML I have all DB related information I need (data & metadata). Everything works fine except one thing – obtaining foreign key constraints from information_schema.
The problem lies in performance. Getting approximately 100 constraints takes up about 7 minutes of PHP script loading! However, if one runs command
SET GLOBAL innodb_stats_on_metadata = 0
with constraint query (i.e. in PHPMyAdmin) like this
SET GLOBAL innodb_stats_on_metadata = 0;
SELECT * FROM information_schema.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE
everything takes up about 5 seconds and it's done. Now, this is a huge timesaver and it would be really great if I could use this in following fashion:
try{
$conn = $this->db->_pdo;
$conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_AUTOCOMMIT, 0); //disable autocommit for transaction consistency
$conn->beginTransaction();
$this->db->_pdo->exec('SET GLOBAL innodb_stats_on_metadata = 0');
$query = $this->db->_pdo->prepare('
SELECT *
FROM information_schema.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE
WHERE REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME = ?');
$query->bindParam(1, $table, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$query->execute();
$keys = $query->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
$conn->commit();
$conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_AUTOCOMMIT, 1);
if(!empty($keys)) return $keys; else return false;
}catch (Exception $e){
$conn->rollback();
echo 'Caught exception: ', $e->getMessage(), "\n";
return false;
}
The problem is that exec command is just ignored here and process time is still very long. If I put that command into prepare (before SELECT and separated by semicolon) everything just ends with an error.
So my question is: How can I set mysqli DB parameter innodb_stats_on_metadata inside PHP PDO structure which uses transactions and prepare statements?