SHOW TABLE REGIONS
The SHOW TABLE REGIONS statement is used to show the Region information of a table in TiDB.
Syntax
SHOW TABLE [table_name] REGIONS [WhereClauseOptional];
SHOW TABLE [table_name] INDEX [index_name] REGIONS [WhereClauseOptional];
Synopsis
ShowTableRegionStmt:

TableName:

PartitionNameListOpt:

WhereClauseOptional:

WhereClause:

Executing SHOW TABLE REGIONS returns the following columns:
- REGION_ID: The Region ID.
- START_KEY: The start key of the Region.
- END_KEY: The end key of the Region.
- LEADER_ID: The Leader ID of the Region.
- LEADER_STORE_ID: The ID of the store (TiKV) where the Region leader is located.
- PEERS: The IDs of all Region replicas.
- SCATTERING: Whether the Region is being scheduled.- 1means true.
- WRITTEN_BYTES: The estimated amount of data written into the Region within one heartbeat cycle. The unit is byte.
- READ_BYTES: The estimated amount of data read from the Region within one heartbeat cycle. The unit is byte.
- APPROXIMATE_SIZE(MB): The estimated amount of data in the Region. The unit is megabytes (MB).
- APPROXIMATE_KEYS: The estimated number of Keys in the Region.
- SCHEDULING_CONSTRAINTS: The placement policy settings associated with the table or partition to which a Region belongs.
- SCHEDULING_CONSTRAINTS: The placement policy settings associated with the table or partition to which a Region belongs.
- SCHEDULING_STATE: The scheduling state of the Region which has a placement policy.
Examples
Create an example table with enough data that fills a few Regions:
CREATE TABLE t1 (
 id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY auto_increment,
 b INT NOT NULL,
 pad1 VARBINARY(1024),
 pad2 VARBINARY(1024),
 pad3 VARBINARY(1024)
);
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM dual;
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM t1 a JOIN t1 b JOIN t1 c LIMIT 10000;
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM t1 a JOIN t1 b JOIN t1 c LIMIT 10000;
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM t1 a JOIN t1 b JOIN t1 c LIMIT 10000;
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM t1 a JOIN t1 b JOIN t1 c LIMIT 10000;
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM t1 a JOIN t1 b JOIN t1 c LIMIT 10000;
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM t1 a JOIN t1 b JOIN t1 c LIMIT 10000;
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM t1 a JOIN t1 b JOIN t1 c LIMIT 10000;
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM t1 a JOIN t1 b JOIN t1 c LIMIT 10000;
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM t1 a JOIN t1 b JOIN t1 c LIMIT 10000;
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM t1 a JOIN t1 b JOIN t1 c LIMIT 10000;
INSERT INTO t1 SELECT NULL, FLOOR(RAND()*1000), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024), RANDOM_BYTES(1024) FROM t1 a JOIN t1 b JOIN t1 c LIMIT 10000;
SELECT SLEEP(5);
SHOW TABLE t1 REGIONS;
The output should show that the table is split into Regions. The REGION_ID, START_KEY and END_KEY may not match exactly:
...
mysql> SHOW TABLE t1 REGIONS;
+-----------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------------+-------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
| REGION_ID | START_KEY    | END_KEY      | LEADER_ID | LEADER_STORE_ID | PEERS | SCATTERING | WRITTEN_BYTES | READ_BYTES | APPROXIMATE_SIZE(MB) | APPROXIMATE_KEYS | SCHEDULING_CONSTRAINTS | SCHEDULING_STATE |
+-----------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------------+-------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
|        94 | t_75_        | t_75_r_31717 |        95 |               1 | 95    |          0 |             0 |          0 |                  112 |           207465 |                        |                  |
|        96 | t_75_r_31717 | t_75_r_63434 |        97 |               1 | 97    |          0 |             0 |          0 |                   97 |                0 |                        |                  |
|         2 | t_75_r_63434 |              |         3 |               1 | 3     |          0 |     269323514 |   66346110 |                  245 |           162020 |                        |                  |
+-----------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------------+-------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
In the output above, a START_KEY of t_75_r_31717 and END_KEY of t_75_r_63434 shows that data with a PRIMARY KEY between 31717 and 63434 is stored in this Region. The prefix t_75_ indicates that this is the Region for a table (t) which has an internal table ID of 75. An empty key value for START_KEY or END_KEY indicates negative infinity or positive infinity respectively.
TiDB automatically rebalances Regions as needed. For manual rebalancing, use the SPLIT TABLE REGION statement:
mysql> SPLIT TABLE t1 BETWEEN (31717) AND (63434) REGIONS 2;
+--------------------+----------------------+
| TOTAL_SPLIT_REGION | SCATTER_FINISH_RATIO |
+--------------------+----------------------+
|                  1 |                    1 |
+--------------------+----------------------+
1 row in set (42.34 sec)
mysql> SHOW TABLE t1 REGIONS;
+-----------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------------+-------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
| REGION_ID | START_KEY    | END_KEY      | LEADER_ID | LEADER_STORE_ID | PEERS | SCATTERING | WRITTEN_BYTES | READ_BYTES | APPROXIMATE_SIZE(MB) | APPROXIMATE_KEYS | SCHEDULING_CONSTRAINTS | SCHEDULING_STATE |
+-----------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------------+-------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
|        94 | t_75_        | t_75_r_31717 |        95 |               1 | 95    |          0 |             0 |          0 |                  112 |           207465 |                        |                  |
|        98 | t_75_r_31717 | t_75_r_47575 |        99 |               1 | 99    |          0 |          1325 |          0 |                   53 |            12052 |                        |                  |
|        96 | t_75_r_47575 | t_75_r_63434 |        97 |               1 | 97    |          0 |          1526 |          0 |                   48 |                0 |                        |                  |
|         2 | t_75_r_63434 |              |         3 |               1 | 3     |          0 |             0 |   55752049 |                   60 |                0 |                        |                  |
+-----------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------------+-------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
The above output shows that Region 96 was split, with a new Region 98 being created. The remaining Regions in the table were unaffected by the split operation. This is confirmed by the output statistics:
- TOTAL_SPLIT_REGIONindicates the number of newly split Regions. In this example, the number is 1.
- SCATTER_FINISH_RATIOindicates the rate at which the newly split Regions are successfully scattered.- 1.0means that all Regions are scattered.
For a more detailed example:
mysql> show table t regions;
+-----------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------------+---------------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
| REGION_ID | START_KEY    | END_KEY      | LEADER_ID | LEADER_STORE_ID | PEERS         | SCATTERING | WRITTEN_BYTES | READ_BYTES | APPROXIMATE_SIZE(MB) | APPROXIMATE_KEYS | SCHEDULING_CONSTRAINTS | SCHEDULING_STATE |
+-----------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------------+---------------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
| 102       | t_43_r       | t_43_r_20000 | 118       | 7               | 105, 118, 119 | 0          | 0             | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
| 106       | t_43_r_20000 | t_43_r_40000 | 120       | 7               | 107, 108, 120 | 0          | 23            | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
| 110       | t_43_r_40000 | t_43_r_60000 | 112       | 9               | 112, 113, 121 | 0          | 0             | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
| 114       | t_43_r_60000 | t_43_r_80000 | 122       | 7               | 115, 122, 123 | 0          | 35            | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
| 3         | t_43_r_80000 |              | 93        | 8               | 5, 73, 93     | 0          | 0             | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
| 98        | t_43_        | t_43_r       | 99        | 1               | 99, 100, 101  | 0          | 0             | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
+-----------+--------------+--------------+-----------+-----------------+---------------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
6 rows in set
In the above example:
- Table t corresponds to six Regions. In these Regions, 102,106,110,114, and3store the row data and98stores the index data.
- For START_KEYandEND_KEYof Region102,t_43indicates the table prefix and ID._ris the prefix of the record data in table t._iis the prefix of the index data.
- In Region 102,START_KEYandEND_KEYmean that record data in the range of[-inf, 20000)is stored. In similar way, the ranges of data storage in Regions (106,110,114,3) can also be calculated.
- Region 98stores the index data. The start key of table t's index data ist_43_i, which is in the range of Region98.
To check the Region that corresponds to table t in store 1, use the WHERE clause:
test> show table t regions where leader_store_id =1;
+-----------+-----------+---------+-----------+-----------------+--------------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
| REGION_ID | START_KEY | END_KEY | LEADER_ID | LEADER_STORE_ID | PEERS        | SCATTERING | WRITTEN_BYTES | READ_BYTES | APPROXIMATE_SIZE(MB) | APPROXIMATE_KEYS | SCHEDULING_CONSTRAINTS | SCHEDULING_STATE |
+-----------+-----------+---------+-----------+-----------------+--------------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
| 98        | t_43_     | t_43_r  | 99        | 1               | 99, 100, 101 | 0          | 0             | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
+-----------+-----------+---------+-----------+-----------------+--------------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
Use SPLIT TABLE REGION to split the index data into Regions. In the following example, the index data name of table t is split into two Regions in the range of [a,z].
test> split table t index name between ("a") and ("z") regions 2;
+--------------------+----------------------+
| TOTAL_SPLIT_REGION | SCATTER_FINISH_RATIO |
+--------------------+----------------------+
| 2                  | 1.0                  |
+--------------------+----------------------+
1 row in set
Now table t corresponds to seven Regions. Five of them (102, 106, 110, 114, 3) store the record data of table t and another two (135, 98) store the index data name.
test> show table t regions;
+-----------+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+-----------------+---------------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
| REGION_ID | START_KEY                   | END_KEY                     | LEADER_ID | LEADER_STORE_ID | PEERS         | SCATTERING | WRITTEN_BYTES | READ_BYTES | APPROXIMATE_SIZE(MB) | APPROXIMATE_KEYS | SCHEDULING_CONSTRAINTS | SCHEDULING_STATE |
+-----------+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+-----------------+---------------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
| 102       | t_43_r                      | t_43_r_20000                | 118       | 7               | 105, 118, 119 | 0          | 0             | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
| 106       | t_43_r_20000                | t_43_r_40000                | 120       | 7               | 108, 120, 126 | 0          | 0             | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
| 110       | t_43_r_40000                | t_43_r_60000                | 112       | 9               | 112, 113, 121 | 0          | 0             | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
| 114       | t_43_r_60000                | t_43_r_80000                | 122       | 7               | 115, 122, 123 | 0          | 35            | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
| 3         | t_43_r_80000                |                             | 93        | 8               | 73, 93, 128   | 0          | 0             | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
| 135       | t_43_i_1_                   | t_43_i_1_016d80000000000000 | 139       | 2               | 138, 139, 140 | 0          | 35            | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
| 98        | t_43_i_1_016d80000000000000 | t_43_r                      | 99        | 1               | 99, 100, 101  | 0          | 0             | 0          | 1                    | 0                |                        |                  |
+-----------+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+-----------------+---------------+------------+---------------+------------+----------------------+------------------+------------------------+------------------+
7 rows in set
MySQL compatibility
This statement is a TiDB extension to MySQL syntax.