Hi!
On Feb 13, David Shrewsbury wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm trying to learn a little about creating a custom
> storage engine and following the instructions found
> in the Internals documentation. That documentation
> suggests to set the storage engine identifier to the
> DB_TYPE_CUSTOM value:
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/custom-engine-handlerton.html
>
> but this value does not exist anywhere in the latest 5.1
> tree. This problem was even identified back in August 2006
> to the internals mailing list:
>
> http://lists.mysql.com/internals/33810
>
> I see that these types are defined in handler.h and even
> other custom engines have their own type defined (PBXT, Solid,
> etc). Is the proper course of action to modify handler.h
> and add my own type?
No, of course not.
Use DB_TYPE_UNKNOWN.
Regards / Mit vielen Grüssen,
Sergei
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