[development] MyISAM Hard-coded (was: MySQL performance tuning snippet)

[Khalid B]

You mean this message?

http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2005-December/012563.html
and
http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2005-December/012568.html

On 2/22/06, Angie Byron <drupal-devel at webchick.net> wrote:
> Kind of off-topic, but this reminded me of something...
>
> > He suggested we use InnoDB for large sites
>
> Is there a particular reason that Drupal's database.mysql file hard-codes tables
> to use MyISAM rather than leaving this specification off so it just inherits
> whatever the default table type is? I found this thread
> http://drupal.org/node/43336 which makes reference to a development discussion
> on engine agnosticity (I'm pretty sure I just made that word up) but I wasn't
> able to find the original discussion.
>
> On the off-chance there isn't, here is a patch:
>
> http://drupal.org/node/50669
>