Mayuran Yogarajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Each |MyISAM| table is stored on disk in three files. The files have 
> names that
> begin with the table name and have an extension to indicate the file type.
> An `.frm' file stores the table definition. The data file has an `.MYD'
> (MYData) extension. The index file has an `.MYI' (MYIndex) extension.

> My question is, why does MySQL create a .frm (table definition) for a
> table if that table is of type InnoDB. For example, consider the following:

The answer is there, right in your posting: 

> An `.frm' file stores the table definition. 






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