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Kevin Hunter hunteke at earlham.edu
Fri Jul 27 09:43:26 PDT 2007


At 7:16p -0400 on 19 Jul 2007, Chris Samuel wrote:
>> Mind you, MySQL is perfectly capable of corrupting its own data 
>> without relying on rare hardware and power failures to blame for it.
> 
> We have never found that, but should you come across it I would 
> suggest filing a bug report so it can get fixed.  Remember that 
> MyISAM isn't ACID, just InnoDB.

[Apologies for 8 day-late reply]

MyISAM isn't ACID, true.  Unfortunately, MySQL's internal metadata
tables are MyISAM.  At least as of 5.0  :-(

Kevin



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