From: Dan Nelson Date: August 24 2004 5:46pm Subject: Re: Debating over table types List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/171478 Message-Id: <20040824174618.GF36920@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In the last episode (Aug 24), Stuart Felenstein said: > Right, I have set up some tables with text columns that will need > full text searching, In those cases I chose myisam. Is there any > danger in changing table types on the fly ? Not including the loss of > any foreign keys that may have been set up (innodb to myisam). I'm > wondering more about data corruption ? During testing I've converted tables from MyISAM to Innodb and back with no problems. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@stripped