On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:41:54PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Aug 20), Michael S. Fischer said:
> > In a word, no.  The way MySQL organizes its datafiles is trivial by
> > comparison: one directory per database, two files per table (table.MYI
> > and table.MYD), one is the datafile, the other is the index file.  MySQL
> > also does not preallocate space for its tables like Oracle does.
> 
> That's for MyISAM tables.  InnoDB tables do use a tablespace, but it's
> one big file for everything, indexes and tables.  You can't create
> multiple tablespaces and assign individual tables/indexes/users to
> different tablespaces.

Not yet.  But that's supposed to be under development now.
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