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authorMalcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>2008-10-05 06:56:15 +0000
committerMalcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>2008-10-05 06:56:15 +0000
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parent5cd7af58c933a093aa17515d099d45bc9347d2c8 (diff)
Fixed #8964 -- Added a note that MyISAM may not necessarily be the default
storage engine for MySQL. Some packagers seem to like causing confusion. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@9143 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -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
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