On 2010-01-13, at 3:52 PM, Timo Hoepfner wrote:

> Hi list, especially Kieran. :)
> 
> I have a project that evolved over the years. Basically it's a product and 
> image database, which also provides the content for the customer's home page. 
> The product and image database and CMS administration is done in WO, the 
> customer's home page was coded in PHP by someone else (other company), 
> accessing the same DB (read only). Using MySQL was a customer requirement 
> when the project started.
> 
> The PHP stuff depends on MySQL's FULLTEXT search (with a custom stopwords 
> configuration), which in turns requires the use of MYISAM. I'd really like to 
> move the whole DB to InnoDB tables, but I have no clue how to keep the 
> FULLTEXT stuff of the PHP part functional. 
> 
> It would be no problem to change the WO or PHP code (for which I now also 
> have the honor to maintain) as long the stuff continues to work as expected.
> 
> Any ideas?

Timo,

I know it's ugly, but you can mix InnoDB and MyISAM tables in the same database.

If the FULL TEXT indexes are only on a single/few tables/columns that may be an 
option.

Keep MyISAM for the FT tables, move everything else to InnoDB.

;david

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