Hi! -----Original Message----- From: Philip Molter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Heikki Tuuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 8:24 PM Subject: Re: innoDB confusion
>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 With some work, yes. innodb_table_monitor prints the internal schema of InnoDB. There are fewer column types inside InnoDB than in MySQL. For example, a DATE column will appear as an integer. >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. Sorry, but I do not understand? If you delete the .frm file, then the large table is preserved inside the tablespace. And if you create a table with the same name, InnoDB will complain. >* Philip Molter >* Texas.net Internet >* http://www.texas.net/ >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best regards, Heikki Tuuri Innobase Oy --- InnoDB - transactions, row level locking, and foreign key support for MySQL See http://www.innodb.com, download MySQL-Max from http://www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
