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This is important for the ability to refactor the database for better performance in the future. See #511 for details. For those interested in the details, here is a query plan of selecting the "All" category of apps before this commit: * `SCAN TABLE fdroid_app USING INDEX app_id` * `SEARCH TABLE fdroid_apk USING INDEX apk_id (id=?)` * `SEARCH TABLE fdroid_repo USING INTEGER PRIMARY KEY (rowid=?)` * `SEARCH TABLE fdroid_installedApp AS installed USING INDEX sqlite_autoindex_fdroid_installedApp_1 (appId=?)` * `SEARCH TABLE fdroid_apk AS suggestedApk USING INDEX sqlite_autoindex_fdroid_apk_1 (id=? AND vercode=?)` * `USE TEMP B-TREE FOR ORDER BY` And here is a query plan of afterwards: * `SCAN TABLE fdroid_app` * `SEARCH TABLE fdroid_apk USING INDEX apk_appId (appId=?)` * `SEARCH TABLE fdroid_repo USING INTEGER PRIMARY KEY (rowid=?)` * `SEARCH TABLE fdroid_installedApp AS installed USING INDEX sqlite_autoindex_fdroid_installedApp_1 (appId=?)` * `SEARCH TABLE fdroid_apk AS suggestedApk USING INDEX apk_appId (appId=?)` * `USE TEMP B-TREE FOR ORDER BY` The things of note are: * `SCAN TABLE` doesn't use an index, which means that it is really using the rowid index. Shouldn't behave much differently. * The second item now uses an integer primary key index rather than a package name index. Should increase search speed marginally which was the goal of this commit. As more apks exist, the speed improvement will also increase.
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