> At 11:06 -0500 10/30/04, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> >On Saturday 30 October 2004 10:58 am, Paul DuBois wrote:
> >>
> >> What output does the following statement produce?
> >>
> >> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'have_innodb';
> >>
> >> If YES, the ALTER TABLE statement should have worked.
> >> If NO, your server doesn't have InnoDB support built in.
> >> If DISABLED, your server supports InnoDB but it was disable at
> >> startup time with --skip-innodb.
> >
> >That was it. Thanks. I didn't think of Debian disabling the INNODB
function.
>
> Rude of them. :-)
Add to that: what about raising an error/warning message
when something like that fails??
With regards,
Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
Upscene Productions
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