Re: is CREATE TABLE not transactional?

Tyler MacDonald <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paul DuBois <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/implicit-commit.html
> 
> So it's caused an implicit transaction before 4.1.13 (and 5.0.0 which came
> out about the same time) if the binary log was enabled. But that log
> generally *should* be enabled.
> 
> As to the why ... dunno.

	Ah well. My application doesn't depend on it for any point except
the installation phase, where if the install was unsuccessful it would have
been nice to be able to just ROLLBACK the entire thing. Postgres deals with
this fine, hopefully MySQL will one day too.

		- Tyler


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