[Mediawiki-l] Mysql ISAM vs InnoDB

[Jim Hu]

$wgDBtransactions gets set to true if using InnoDB tables.  Is there  
an advantage to using InnoDB tables?
The disadvantage is that with MySQL there is a file, ibdata1, that  
seems to grow endlessly if InnoDB tables are used.  See

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1341

We're wondering if we should just convert everything to MyISAM.  Any  
thoughts?

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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054