Ares Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Under windows XP, mysql-4.0.12, when I create a table with special data and index 
> directories as follow:
> 
> USE DATABASE test;
> 
> CREAT TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test_table ( Vola INT NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (Vola)) 
>       DATA DIRECTORY="D:/mySQLDBs/test/data" 
>       INDEX DIRECTORY="D:/mySQLDBs/test/index";
> 
> It show test_table created successfully in mysql client.
> But really, mysqld creats table test_table with three table files test_table.frm, 
> test_table.MYD, and test_table.MYI in D:\mySQLDBs directory. In addition, I defined 
> "datadir=d:/mySQLDBs" in my.cnf.
> 
> Who can tell me why this happened? And how can I put the data file and index file to 
> where I want to allocate without links.

DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY is ignored on Windows.



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