Re: Experience with MySQL 3.23 under Debian 2.2

[Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu>]

"Terry Katz" <katz@advanced.org> writes:

> http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_News.html
> 
> there's a bunch of new things .. they've re-wrote the table structures
> (there's three types of tables you can create now .. legacy 'ISAM', the new
> 'MYISAM', and Heap tables..).. The new MyISAM table structure is supposed to
> be more tuned for SQL ..

Exactly.  I was interested in using these new types of tables.  Also,
they have allowed greater flexibility in the forms of queries,
inserts, updates, etc.

> Other things are key types on varchar's, and 64bit table sizes (no more 4gig
> table size limit)