The INNODB_VIRTUAL
table provides
metadata about InnoDB
virtual generated
columns and columns upon which virtual generated columns
are based.
A row appears in the INNODB_VIRTUAL
table for each column upon which a virtual generated column is
based.
The INNODB_VIRTUAL
table has these
columns:
TABLE_ID
An identifier representing the table associated with the virtual column; the same value as
INNODB_TABLES.TABLE_ID
.POS
The position value of the virtual generated column. The value is large because it encodes the column sequence number and ordinal position. The formula used to calculate the value uses a bitwise operation:
((nth virtual generated column for the InnoDB instance + 1) << 16) + the ordinal position of the virtual generated column
For example, if the first virtual generated column in the
InnoDB
instance is the third column of the table, the formula is(0 + 1) << 16) + 2
. The first virtual generated column in theInnoDB
instance is always number 0. As the third column in the table, the ordinal position of the virtual generated column is 2. Ordinal positions are counted from 0.BASE_POS
The ordinal position of the columns upon which a virtual generated column is based.
Example
mysql> CREATE TABLE `t1` (
`a` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`b` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`c` int(11) GENERATED ALWAYS AS (a+b) VIRTUAL,
`h` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4;
mysql> SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_VIRTUAL
WHERE TABLE_ID IN
(SELECT TABLE_ID FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_TABLES
WHERE NAME LIKE "test/t1");
+----------+-------+----------+
| TABLE_ID | POS | BASE_POS |
+----------+-------+----------+
| 98 | 65538 | 0 |
| 98 | 65538 | 1 |
+----------+-------+----------+
Notes
If a constant value is assigned to a virtual generated column, as in the following table, an entry for the column does not appear in the
INNODB_VIRTUAL
table. For an entry to appear, a virtual generated column must have a base column.CREATE TABLE `t1` ( `a` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, `b` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, `c` int(11) GENERATED ALWAYS AS (5) VIRTUAL ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci;
However, metadata for such a column does appear in the
INNODB_COLUMNS
table.You must have the
PROCESS
privilege to query this table.Use the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA
COLUMNS
table or theSHOW COLUMNS
statement to view additional information about the columns of this table, including data types and default values.