From: Martijn Tonies
Date: March 31 2006 2:53pm
Subject: Re: Table Type For PK/FK
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Hello Sheeri,

> Indeed, only the BDB and InnoDB storage engines support referential
> integrity.  If you accidentally create the table as MyISAM, there is
> no error, though -- the constraints serve as a comment.

No error? A comment? What use is that?

If you want FKs, having the FKs as "a comment" is useless.

Instead, re-create the table as of the InnoDB type.

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