I am not sure why this request takes 4 minutes:
SELECT
su.sid,u.uid,u.display_name,u.locale
FROM user u
LEFT JOIN subscription_user su ON su.uid = u.uid
ORDER BY u.display_name DESC
LIMIT 0,25;
Well, I know this because of the order, delete it and very quickly. If I switch to using INNER JOIN instead, this is fast, but the problem is not that all users can be in the subscription_user table.
CREATE TABLE `user` (
`uid` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`password` varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,
`user_type` varchar(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'user',
`display_name` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`email` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`locale` varchar(8) DEFAULT 'en',
`last_login` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
`auth_type` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL,
`auth_data` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL,
`inactive` tinyint(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`receive_email` tinyint(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',
`stateid` int(10) DEFAULT NULL,
`owner_group_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`signature` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL,
`raw_signature` varchar(500) DEFAULT NULL,
`round_robin` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`uid`),
UNIQUE KEY `email` (`email`),
KEY `stateid` (`stateid`) USING BTREE,
KEY `user_type` (`user_type`) USING BTREE,
KEY `name` (`display_name`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=28343 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
CREATE TABLE `subscription_user` (
`sid` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`uid` int(11) NOT NULL,
`deleted` tinyint(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`forum_user` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`sid`,`uid`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;