Daniel,

According to the
documentation<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-plugin-installation-configuration.html>it
simply requires the following conf file change:

[mysqld]
> ignore_builtin_innodb


Jeremy Keiper
OpenMRS Core Developer
AMPATH / IU-Kenya Support


On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Daniel Kayiwa <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Jeremy,
>
> Do you remember what you exactly did to configure this plugin?
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Jeremy Keiper <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> There is a MySQL InnoDB plugin that comes packaged with MySQL 5.1+.
>>  Here's a link:
>>
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/index.html
>>
>> The primary benefit for us is fast index creation.  Tuwei, I tested this
>> in our Indy dev server and it worked well.  I believe I just enabled the
>> plugin with a few lines in a conf file in /etc/mysqld/conf.d/ for it to
>> start working.
>>
>> Implementing this plugin can let you do some things that "normal" InnoDB
>> cannot do, which is a good thing unless you need to revert some time.
>>  Because of that, I never tried any other fancy InnoDB plugin enhancements.
>>
>> Jeremy Keiper
>> OpenMRS Core Developer
>> AMPATH / IU-Kenya Support
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Ben Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Mysql unnecessarily complicates the "alter" statements.  It copies the
>>> entire table and rebuilds it.
>>>
>>> Jeremy found a workaround that involves setting a new engine to mysql.
>>> Once choosing that engine, the alter statement is super fast. I can't find
>>> where he talked about or documented that right now though.
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Tuwei Gilbert 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>> We are having problem upgrading to 1.9 this is due to the fact that we
>>>> have more than 125 million observation. Executing this statement 'ALTER
>>>> TABLE obs DROP COLUMN 'date_started' during the upgrade process is taking
>>>> forever.Has any body upgraded to 1.9 and has more than 100 Million obs?
>>>> We are using tomcat 6.0 and mysql 5.1.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
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>>>> Tuwei Gilbert
>>>> OpenMRS Core Implementer
>>>> USAID/AMPATH-Eldoret Kenya
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