[ZODB-Dev] RelStorage - what tables and indexes should be present?

Shane Hathaway shane at hathawaymix.org
Tue Feb 1 12:52:34 EST 2011


On 02/01/2011 07:35 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
> On 01/02/2011 17:33, Shane Hathaway wrote:
>>> What's special about this storage?
>>
>> It sounds like RelStorage didn't get a chance to finish creating the
>> schema. In MySQL, DDL statements are not transactional, so errors during
>> schema creation (such as a timeout) leave a partial schema.
>
> Sounds like something to warn about in the docs for zodbconvert and
> storage creation...

Partial schema creation is specific to MySQL and is not specific to 
RelStorage.  MySQL has many pitfalls and there are far too many of them 
to list in the RelStorage documentation.

Shane


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