Re: table conversion problems

2004-08-27 Thread Michael Stassen
Sergei Skarupo wrote: Hi Donny, Thanks for your reply. This table only uses ints and floats, but the floats are allowed to be null, which means, as far as I understand, that it's not a fixed row length... What makes you think that? VARCHAR, TEXT, and BLOB are the variable-length column types

table conversion problems

2004-08-26 Thread Sergei Skarupo
Hi all, Started a conversion from MyISAM to InnoDB; it's been almost two days and the statement is still executing... The (MyISAM) data table size is almost 4G. There were two reasons for this conversion: to start supporting transactions and to avoid the 4G limit of MyISAM tables; this

RE: table conversion problems

2004-08-26 Thread Donny Simonton
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:36 PM To: Mysql List (E-mail) Subject: table conversion problems Hi all, Started a conversion from MyISAM to InnoDB; it's been almost two days and the statement is still executing... The (MyISAM) data table size is almost 4G. There were

RE: table conversion problems

2004-08-26 Thread Sergei Skarupo
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:37 PM To: Sergei Skarupo; 'Mysql List (E-mail)' Subject: RE: table conversion problems Sergei, I don't know much about innodb, but myisam doesn't have a 4 gig limit unless you are using a dynamic type of table. If you are using a fixed table