"Sorts each table's rows by primary key, or first unique key, if such a key exists. Useful when dumping a MyISAM table to be loaded into an InnoDB table, but will make the dump itself take considerably longer.",
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.\" mysqldump: order-by-size option
.\" order-by-size option: mysqldump
\fB\-\-order\-by\-size\fR
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Dump each table according to their size, smallest first\&. Useful when using \-\-single\-transaction on tables which get truncated/altered often\&.
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The assumption here is that smaller tables get truncated more often, and by doing dumping those first, this reduces the chance that a \-\-single\-transaction
dump will fail with with 'Table definition has changed, please retry transaction'\&.