[rt-users] uhm - why innodb?

[Harald Kapper]

hi
sorry for my ignorance, but as I'm like fellow list-members in planning the move
from 3.0.9 to 3.2.1 here I'm once again in testing how long a whole insert of
our rt-database into a new database takes (yes, I have to do it the "right" way
for replication to work and other stuff). and the result is mysqldump is pretty
fast :-) - but the inserting is something I should plan for at least a weekend
(and always thought we had fast boxes *g*).

just for the goof I also tested this export+import thing using myisam tables and
(surprise surprise) that got it a lot faster ;-)

now - I don't see relationships between the tables (references) and I deeply
believe rt v2 was running on myisam tables - now I really tried to find a
reference on "why innodb" or at least some transactional code in the sources,
but couldn't find any (but hey, that's me - not a specialst).

so my dumb question here: are innodb-tables necessary? (and why?)

thank you in advance
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