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Suggestion MySQL Index Hints

See original GitHub issue

Has anyone thought about the ability to add index hints in queries for MySQL. I thought an option like useIndex could passed into the find functions.

Something like the following

var options = {
    useIndex: "my_fast_index"
};
mymodel.findAll(options);

I can look at submitting a PR if this interests anyone else.

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Created 7 years ago
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Top GitHub Comments

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jessethomsoncommented, Apr 12, 2018

Did this ever happen? This functionality would be amazing.

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monukanyalcommented, Oct 5, 2018

Is this feature added now?

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