On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:01:26PM +0300, Heikki Tuuri wrote:
> Andreas,
>
> sorry, it is the default MySQL behavior to create a MyISAM table if
> another handler is not present.
>
> There was a long thread of emails between MySQL developers if MySQL
> should give an error message if a table cannot be created to be of
> type BDB or InnoDB because the handler is not present, but I think
> there was no decision to change the behavior. I think it would be
> better if the database would give an error. Transactional applications
> cannot be used with MyISAM tables.
Don't try to choose (you'll never make everyone happy), let the user
decide.
Perhaps by allowing the TYPE= clause to take a list of fallback types
and add a session option to say if an additional fallback to MYISAM
should be assumed.
Tim.
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