I would like to know if we have the opportunity to see which partitions were scanned during the query execution plan.
Is this information visible in EXPLAIN / EXPLAIN EXTENDED of the corresponding SELECT ...?
Use: EXPLAIN PARTITIONS SELECT
You need to use EXPLAIN PARTITIONS(and link 5.5 )
EXPLAIN PARTITIONS
MySQL 5.1.5, , SELECT, EXPLAIN PARTITIONS. PARTITIONS EXPLAIN, , .
EXPLAIN PARTITIONS EXTENDED,
PARTITIONS
EXTENDED