On Tuesday, 28 March 2006 at 10:09:16 +0200, Martijn Tonies wrote:
> Hello Taco,
>
>> I previously tried this same question on the GUI tool list, but not much
>> traffic there, so I thought I'd give it a go here.
>> I've been reading some articles that suggest I should be able to create a
>> relationship on a MyISAM table, it would be great if someone could confirm
>> or deny this.
>>
>> has anyone experienced any problems creating foreign keys
>> (relationships) on tables that are of storage engine MyISAM?
>
> Now, there will be people telling you that you CAN create foreign keys.
>
> Well, in a way, this is true -> you can create columns with values that
> point to other tables.
>
> What you probably are asking, is if you can referential integrity
> constraints.
>
> The answer, for MyISAM tables, is NO.
Currently foreign key constraints only work for InnoDB tables. We're
working making foreign keys table independent, but I can't give you a
completion date yet.
Greg
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