[rt-users] Sessions Table is MyISAM

[Micah Gersten]

On 09/22/2009 08:05 AM, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 07:15:09PM -0700, Behzad Mahini wrote:
>> I have done a fresh installation of RT 3.8.4,  and have done no  
>> modifications of any sort to the default installation.....and was  
>> preparing to do my database backup (using mysqldump),and noticed the  
>> only table that has a MyISAM engine is the 'Sessions' Table (the rest  
>> are all InnoDB as expected).
>>
>> My understanding is that all of these tables were to have been of the  
>> InnoDB engine type (RT's transaction-based requirements/ 
>> recommendations).
>>
>> 1) Is this by design, or due to an unresolved bug?
> Closer to the former than the latter. 
>
What are the benefits of the Sessions table being MyISAM now that InnoDB
read/write throughput is in most cases superior to MyISAM?

Micah