Hello Heikki,
Wednesday, May 16, 2001, 4:01:26 PM, you wrote:
HT> Andreas,
HT> sorry, it is the default MySQL behavior to create a MyISAM table if
HT> another handler is not present.
HT> There was a long thread of emails between MySQL developers if MySQL
HT> should give an error message if a table cannot be created to be of
HT> type BDB or InnoDB because the handler is not present, but I think
HT> there was no decision to change the behavior. I think it would be
HT> better if the database would give an error. Transactional applications
HT> cannot be used with MyISAM tables.
Well this should be at least configurable (which is not really hard to
do I think) As in some cases this may lead to real problems - if
you're applictions are only using automatic rollback if it crashes
you will not be able to discover error until it does so :)
Well. If I'm not mistaken mysql 4.0 will introduce warnings which will
solve the thing.
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Best regards,
Peter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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