does mysqlimport actually recreate the table schmea as well as import data?

[Peter J. Schoenster]

Hi,

A cohort wrote a script to import tab delimited files. He uses 
mysqlimport. He uses the -d option to ONLY empty the data from the 
table before importing the new data. My cohort believes that 
mysqlimport is also dropping the table and then recreating the table 
from somewhere and then inserting the new data. And the problem 
according to him is that apparently MySQL is using some older version 
of the table which has a different column structure so that when the 
new data is imported it goes into the wrong columns. 

Anybody familiar with this? He says it's an optimization of MySQL to 
drop the table first ... but I have seen no confirmation.

Peter







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