At 1:58 +0000 9/25/02, Jessica Thomale wrote:
>On Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002, at 01:00 Etc/GMT, Paul DuBois wrote:
>
>>At 0:39 +0000 9/25/02, Jessica Thomale wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Is it possible to use InnoDB tables that have transaction support
>>>without using InnoDB for server logs?
>>
>>The InnoDB handler maintains its own logs, and it uses these for
>>transaction support and crash recovery. You can't turn them off.
>>
>>However, these are different than the query log, the update log, the
>>binary update log, the slow-query log, the error log, and the isam
>>log. Are you referring to any of those when you say "server logs"?
>
>Yes, those were the logs I was referring to. The logs that are produced when
>you run mysqld instead of an embedded server.
>
>When upgrading MySQL from 3.23.xx to 4.0.3, I forgot to uncomment
>all the innodb
>parameters except the data directory. It ran my queries as fast as
>the embedded server, but
>when these logs were reenabled, it was slower.
Uncommenting the parameters won't enable/disable the logs. InnoDB
*always* logs, it just uses default parameter values when you comment
out the parameter values.