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Understanding Pre-Filtering and Condition Pushdown
Updated May 4, 2026
Short answer
Optimizing NDB or Engine-level filtering.
Deep explanation
The optimizer pushes WHERE conditions down to the storage engine layer so that rows are filtered before being returned to the SQL layer.
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