A problem relative ibdata1

2009-03-26 Thread Riccardo Michele Filippone
Hello! First of all sorry for my terrible english. Well I've a big problem with ibdata1, this damn file increase its size constantly. I tryed to use innodb_file_per_table... but: - MySQL create a lot of ibd files for all DB (correct) - ibdata1 is however created and increase its size...

Re: A problem relative ibdata1

2009-03-26 Thread Claudio Nanni
You can't! it is part of the datafiles of InnoDB storage engine! and It contains important data like the information schema. So I would rather ask you, is it abnormally growing or is it just your feeling? You should be more precise to have good answers, for instance how much megabytes per

Re: A problem relative ibdata1

2009-03-26 Thread Claudio Nanni
Hi Riccardo, I don't think you should need any other storage engine if you need foreign keys. InnoDB is by far the most used, standard, transactional, foreign key-supporting MySQL storage engine. No other valid option comes to my mind now. But please share your needs and let's see if I am

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2009-03-26 Thread Walter Heck - OlinData.com
forgot the list, sorry :) Walter Heck -- Forwarded message -- From: Walter Heck - OlinData.com li...@olindata.com Date: Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:09 PM Subject: Re: A problem relative ibdata1 To: Cc: Riccardo Michele Filippone ethern...@gmail.com Riccardo, if you're ibdata1 file

Re: A problem relative ibdata1

2009-03-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 26), Riccardo Michele Filippone said: Hello! First of all sorry for my terrible english. Well I've a big problem with ibdata1, this damn file increase its size constantly. I tryed to use innodb_file_per_table... but: - MySQL create a lot of ibd files for all