On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:17:53PM +0200, Heikki Tuuri wrote:
: Hi!
: 
: "Weaver, Walt" wrote in message ...
: >Do a "show table status" at the mysql prompt. Under "type" you should see
: >InnoDB.
: 
: Yes, and in really problematic situations, where you have lost your .frm
: files, for example, you can use innodb_table_monitor as explained in the
: InnoDB online manual.

This brings up an interesting point.  If you've lost your .frm
files, are you totally screwed, or does InnoDB contain enough
information to restore those .frm files?  It's not a big deal if
it doesn't.  That's why God gave us backups, after all.

I know oftentimes, when we're doing testing with very large tables,
rather than go through the hassle of cleaning stuff out, we just
drop the .frm files, which causes InnoDB to "lose" the tables.
Then we can recreate just fine.

* Philip Molter
* Texas.net Internet
* http://www.texas.net/
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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