> minded... anyway: one ad hominem line of reasoning that has influenced > me is that giants like Drupal and Wordpress seem to favor myisam and if > it's good enough for them... Why do you suppose they go for myisam?
Giants? > Performance performance performance? Ronald's right - it's a historic and compatibility thing - least common denominator. MyISAM is great for somethings, but it's just one possible solution. If pure performance is what we cared about, we'd write to static files - or just RAM :P H _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community MySQL SIG http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/mysql NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
