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Re: MyISAM updates synchronous or not ?
Posted by: Stephen Collyer
Date: August 01, 2005 10:28AM

>No, writes are performed in MyISAM in an asynchronous manner, with the operating >system performing disk synching at periodic intervals.

Right. I suspected as much, but it doesn't seem to be documented.

>If you need synched writes, use the InnoDB storage engine, and read up on the >innodb_trx_flush_at_commit variable.

Yes, I'm aware of this, but I'd rather fix it at the app. level.

Thanks for the info.

Steve Collyer

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