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Asked: 2026-05-15T19:26:22+00:00

Here’s what I’m trying to do. I’m using ejabberd with mod_logdb. All conversations are

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Here’s what I’m trying to do. I’m using ejabberd with mod_logdb. All conversations are logged to a table in the database tagged with the date.

ex: logdb_messages_2010-7-17_server_node

What I’m trying to do is write a search that will look in all these tables without hitting the DB too much. I’d like to create a view that takes all the data in the table so I can just hit that.

Problem is there may be days that have no logs and, of course, days before we started logging.

Is there a way I can somehow use a wildcard to snag these from MySQL? My other other though would be writing a daily cron job to recreate the view I’d need.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Wow, that’s a Sr. antipattern.

    You should query the information schema, unless you can control the schema and avoid the mistake in the first place.

    If you cannot, you have to dynamically generate a prepared statement.

    This is an example:

    http://jayant7k.blogspot.com/2008/02/mysql-stored-procedures-dynamic-tables.html

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