We're using InnoDB > 5.7 so full text search is definitely supported - but also we use Elastic search anyway, does this mean we don't even need the searchindex table?
On 28/07/19 1:07 PM, Manuel Arostegui wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 4:03 PM Bartosz Dziewoński <matma....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The 'searchindex' table uses MyISAM because until recently, InnoDB did >> not support fulltext indexes, which MediaWiki uses for the search. All >> other tables should use InnoDB. >> >> According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/9397060 fulltext indexes are >> available on InnoDB since MySQL 5.6.4. If you're running that version or >> newer, it is possible you could use InnoDB for that table, but as far as >> I know no one has tried it before. >> >> According to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Database >> MediaWiki only requires MySQL 5.5.8, so we can't change that in our >> table definitions (yet). >> >> No idea about the 'math' table. > > The math table isn't used, and it is being dropped in production: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196055 > > Regarding MyISAM vs InnoDB: Always use InnoDB unless you have a very good > reason to use MyISAM (like the one mentioned about full-text indexes). > > Cheers > Manuel. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
