On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:52:43AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> did anybody ever try to run the standard test suite with another
> table handler?

I thought the MySQL team did that...

> We think about switching to InnoDB, but we see problems..:
> 
> - The maximum blob/text length. We use MySQL for our support emails. 
> (Restructuring the database to use a mix of InnoDB and myISAM would 
> work, but not in the short term.) The docs say this should be fixed 
> by now, but is it??

I recall seeing a message recently which said that extended blob/text
lengths were being tested.

> - No fulltext index on non-MyISAM tables. (Why not? You could keep 
> the fulltext index in a separate file.)

No idea. :-)

> - The worst, though, is that the standard test suite fails when using 
> InnoDB as the default handler. IMHO it shouldn't -- all tests which 
> are not table-specific should work with all tables, and those that 
> are should explicitly specify the table type they need.

Where does it fail? I'm sure that if you post a failure report for
something that is documented to work, it'll get fixed.

Jeremy
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