Database issues

[Bart Cerneels]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Jeff Mitchell<mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> Edward Hades wrote:
>> Maybe we could silently convert from innodb to myisam before the
>> schema update takes place?
>
> No, since the schema update has taken place for these people.
>
>> Conversion could be done by just creating another database, copying
>> data, and then dropping the old one.
>
> That's actually not that easy to do in C++.
Then let's not do it in C++. Can we use QtScript for this or even
better: a .sql script.
The whole sql query in C++ thing needs to be discussed at GCDS today.
I'll put it on the whiteboard when I get in.

>
> Also, it does ignore the issue of why it's InnoDB in the first place,
> and whether that problem is truly and actually solved.
>
> --Jeff
>