14 Aug
2006
14 Aug
'06
4:55 p.m.
Yes. At a large-scale site, InnoDB is much preferred. Our MySQL admin is working on a patchfile for database.4.1.mysql that installs log tables as InnoDB by default for our installations.
A while ago, we removed the Engine=MyISAM from all core tables to allow creating the tables with whatever default the site admin decides. So, not sure why an explicit type is needed again.