On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:12, Toby Corkindale wrote; TC> Ick. Have they got around to supporting transactions yet? :P
No, they're too dumb for that - but a company called InnoDB basically re-wrote the core parts of MySQL and called it a "storage back-end". It's free and included in the MySQL distribution, except the hot backup license (very smart move). In fact, it's even compiled in by default with Debian stable, all you need to do is change some config options, bounce MySQL, re-create all your tables & reload your data :-) and you're away laughing ... works very well using raw LVM partitions as tablespaces (I haven't yet found a way to add more table space online, but I may just be overlooking the obvious). http://www.innodb.com/features.html -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX, n: Anything which is subtly incompatible with everything else claming to be a UNIX.
