Engines shouldn't care about foreign keys. If they are added they should be handled in the server above the storage engine layer.
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Brian Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Arjen Lentz wrote: > >> How about foreign keys - they'd become an external dependency, some kind >> of callback through the main server will be needed? > > > I would personally never want to see FK across engines. It is a complete > mess... Innodb has them, and that is fine to me. > > A cross engine FK is not on the list right now, and I doubt we will ever see > it. It is not in the target list of features for the short term. > > Cheers, > -Brian > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org > Seattle, Washington > http://krow.net/ <-- Me > http://tangent.org/ <-- Software > _______________________________________________________ > You can't grep a dead tree. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Eric Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.provenscaling.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
