I thought about it.... I was actually going to use merge tables AND partitions to split the underlying MyISAM tables across two disks and then partition on top.
It's POSSIBLE to use partitioning the way I want it but I'm going to have to grok it for a bit more..... Thanks though. Kevin On 2/12/07, Jay Pipes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kevin Burton wrote: > I want to use a merge table so that I can direct all new INSERTs to a > new merge table and migrate old data off the system by having a > continually sliding window of underlying MyISAM tables. > > The problem is that of I do INSERT ... ON DUPLCATE KEY UPDATE and > that value isn't in the leading table where all INSERTs go a *new* row > will be created. > > Is there any way around this problem? What about using partitioning in MySQl 5.1+? Would this work? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/partitioning.html Cheers, Jay
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