The test process is to create the following table and create a joint index
create table delay_delete_users(
id int auto_increment,
email_id int not null default 0 comment "email table id",
email varchar(50) not null default "",
entid int not null default 0 ,
default_domain varchar(50) not null default "",
delete_time timestamp comment ,
clear tinyint not null default 0 comment,
primary key (id),
key email_entid(email,entid),
key delete_time(delete_time,clear)
)engine innodb;
Insert test data and perform explain query
insert into `delay_delete_users` (email,entid,default_domain,delete_time)value("shihan2",23684,"appdev.sinanet.com","2019-12-10 15:49:16");
insert into `delay_delete_users` (email,entid,default_domain,delete_time,clear)value("shihan2",23684,"appdev.sinanet.com","2019-12-10 15:49:16",1);
insert into `delay_delete_users` (email,entid,default_domain,delete_time,clear)value("shihan2",23684,"appdev.sinanet.com","2019-12-12 15:49:16",1);
explain select * from delay_delete_users where delete_time<'2019-12-12' and clear=0; The index is not used, or a full table scan is performed to see the number of rows scanned
+----+-------------+--------------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+--------------------+------------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+------+----------+-------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | delay_delete_users | NULL | ALL | delete_time | NULL | NULL | NULL | 7 | 14.29 | Using where |
explain select * from delay_delete_users force index(delete_time) where delete_time<'2019-12-12' and clear=0; index is used
+----+-------------+--------------------+------------+-------+---------------+-------------+---------+------+------+----------+-----------------------+
| id | select_type | table | partitions | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | filtered | Extra |
+----+-------------+--------------------+------------+-------+---------------+-------------+---------+------+------+----------+-----------------------+
| 1 | SIMPLE | delay_delete_users | NULL | range | delete_time | delete_time | 4 | NULL | 3 | 14.29 | Using index condition |