Re: L

Greg Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
>
>> in the current version of your document you only talk about key
>> buffers, but these will not affect all storage engines! I am not a DB
>> tuning expert, so this should be double checked.
>
> The way I read their documentation, that tunable works the same way for
> all the storage engines.  If that's not the case, that's a mistake in
> the MySQL documentation I link to.  I'll put a note about it if you can
> find evidence otherwise.

http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/3367871

"While the key_buffer_size is the variable to target for MyISAM tables,
for InnoDB tables, it is innodb_buffer_pool_size."

Obviously key_buffer_size does affect all storage engines, since MyISAM
is the core internal storage engine used for MySQL internals.

> That "implicit commit" stuff is good to know, will add a pointer to that
> next time I'm touching the document.  It goes along with the general
> theme of sloppy implementation I've been weaving in that document.

Actually very few RDBMS support transactional DDL, though right this
second I do not remember what they do in case you issue DDL inside a
transaction. I would assume/hope that they give you an error and not do
an implicit commit.

regards,
Lukas