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diff --git a/docs/ref/databases.txt b/docs/ref/databases.txt index 9f39cef90b..bb033ee72c 100644 --- a/docs/ref/databases.txt +++ b/docs/ref/databases.txt @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ Storage engines MySQL has several `storage engines`_ (previously called table types). You can change the default storage engine in the server configuration. -The default engine is MyISAM_. The main drawback of MyISAM is that it doesn't -currently support transactions or foreign keys. On the plus side, it's +The default engine is MyISAM_ [#]_. The main drawback of MyISAM is that it +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. The InnoDB_ engine is fully transactional and supports foreign key references. @@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ For now, InnoDB is probably your best choice. .. _SolidDB: http://forge.mysql.com/projects/project.php?id=139 .. _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 ------- |