Comments on: Adding InnoDB to sqlall output

By: whiskybar

whiskybar — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:55:26 +0000

I didn’t know them. These are useful indeed. Thank you.

By: mattd

mattd — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:06:16 +0000

Quite right whiskybar, that was one of the suggestions I got when I submitted the idea to the django-developers list. Also it turns out that there is a way to set the option in django as well. I think it may be fairly new as I haven’t seen any docs about it. (scratch that look here for docs on the setting http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/databases/)

Like so:
DATABASE_OPTIONS = {“init_command”: “SET storage_engine=INNODB” }

here is a link to the thread.
http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/92e0e961cfa9bcac

By: whiskybar

whiskybar — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:32:44 +0000

You can make InnoDB your default storage engine if you’re lucky enough to have access to the MySQL configuration.

/etc/mysql/my.cnf:
…
[mysqld]
…
default-storage-engine=innodb

Then, you don’t need to specify ENGINE= each time you create table. Some may not be lucky though.

By: lee

lee — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:31:40 +0000

nice guide. thanks.

this should be patched into SVN i think.