为什么索引不适用于非唯一的日期时间列?

Why index not working on non-unique datetime column?

Table 结构:

CREATE TABLE `stat_old` (
  `dt` datetime NOT NULL,
  `offer_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `aff_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  UNIQUE KEY `dt` (`dt`,`offer_id`,`aff_id`),
  KEY `dt_2` (`dt`),
  KEY `offer_id` (`offer_id`),
  KEY `aff_id` (`aff_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4;

dt 字段存储转换为小时的日期时间值,例如“2019-01-01 01:00:00”、“2019-01-01 02:00:00”,并且它不是唯一的。

查询:

explain select *
FROM stat_old
WHERE
  dt between '2019-02-11 16:00:00' and '2019-02-18 15:59:59'
order by dt;

结果:

+----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+----------+-----------------------------+
| id | select_type | table    | type | possible_keys | key  | key_len | ref  | rows     | Extra                       |
+----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+----------+-----------------------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | stat_old | ALL  | dt,dt_2       | NULL | NULL    | NULL | 18914072 | Using where; Using filesort |
+----+-------------+----------+------+---------------+------+---------+------+----------+-----------------------------+

如您所见,它几乎扫描了包含 20,044,835 行的完整 table。实际上结果数据只有 2,108,707 行。为什么 dt 上的索引未使用?我该如何解决这个问题?

dt 作为主键的第一部分将有助于在 dt 顺序中检索更大的日期范围:

alter table stat_old
drop key dt,
drop key dt_2,
add primary key (`dt`,`offer_id`,`aff_id`)