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[1.0.X] Fixed #8964 -- Added a note that MyISAM may not necessarily b…
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…e the default

storage engine for MySQL. Some packagers seem to like causing confusion.

Backport of r9143 from trunk.


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malcolmt committed Oct 5, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ Storage engines
MySQL has several `storage engines`_ (previously called table types). You can MySQL has several `storage engines`_ (previously called table types). You can
change the default storage engine in the server configuration. change the default storage engine in the server configuration.


The default engine is MyISAM_. The main drawback of MyISAM is that it doesn't The default engine is MyISAM_ [#]_. The main drawback of MyISAM is that it
currently support transactions or foreign keys. On the plus side, it's doesn't currently support transactions or foreign keys. On the plus side, it's
currently the only engine that supports full-text indexing and searching. currently the only engine that supports full-text indexing and searching.


The InnoDB_ engine is fully transactional and supports foreign key references. The InnoDB_ engine is fully transactional and supports foreign key references.
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.. _SolidDB: http://forge.mysql.com/projects/project.php?id=139 .. _SolidDB: http://forge.mysql.com/projects/project.php?id=139
.. _Falcon: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/falcon/en/index.html .. _Falcon: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/falcon/en/index.html


.. [#] Unless this was changed by the packager of your MySQL package. We've
had reports that the Windows Community Server installer sets up InnoDB as
the default storage engine, for example.

MySQLdb MySQLdb
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