MySQL stuck on "using filesort" when doing an "order by"

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Published on 2010-04-20T02:52:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 3:23 UTC
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I can't seem to get my query to stop using filesort.

This is my query:

SELECT s.`pilot`, p.`name`, s.`sector`, s.`hull` 
FROM `pilots` p 
 LEFT JOIN `ships` s ON ( (s.`game` = p.`game`) 
  AND (s.`pilot` = p.`id`) ) 
WHERE p.`game` = 1 
 AND p.`id` <> 2 
 AND s.`sector` = 43 
 AND s.`hull` > 0 
ORDER BY p.`last_move` DESC

Table structures:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `pilots` (
  `id` mediumint(5) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `game` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `last_move` int(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`),
  KEY `last_move` (`last_move`),
  KEY `game_id_lastmove` (`game`,`id`,`last_move`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=8 ;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `ships` (
  `id` mediumint(5) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `game` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `pilot` mediumint(5) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `sector` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `hull` smallint(4) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '50',
  UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`),
  KEY `game` (`game`),
  KEY `pilot` (`pilot`),
  KEY `sector` (`sector`),
  KEY `hull` (`hull`),
  KEY `game_2` (`game`,`pilot`,`sector`,`hull`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=8 ;

The explain:

id  select_type  table  type  possible_keys  key  key_len  ref  rows  Extra
1  SIMPLE     p  ref  id,game_id_lastmove  game_id_lastmove  1  const  7  Using where; Using filesort
1  SIMPLE     s  ref  game,pilot,sector...  game_2  6  const,fightclub_alpha.p.id,const  1    Using where; Using index

edit: I cut some of the unnecessary pieces out of my queries/table structure.

Anybody have any ideas?

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