From: Oded Arbel (oded-linux_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 17 Jun 2004 - 19:12:43 IDT
On Thursday 17 June 2004 19:12, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Pg's disk data structure is built like a journaled file system, in order
> to give an assurance against precisely these type of problems. As far as
> I understood, MySQL's speed comes precisely from the lack of this
> structure.
They have binary logs which serve the same purpose.
> To me, these are more important than logical transactions
> when everything is ok. That is also what I meant when I said I'm not
> sure how you can retrofit such features into an existing database.
InnoDB is not retrofitted - its a completly different storage mechanism which
is used instead of the "default" MyISAM data storage and not in addition to.
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