Installed 5.1.45 after earlier having had 5.0.x on my Vista (SP2).
(Installations were made as developer computer - might be of some importance).
default engine being MYISAM.
I then tried:
ALTER TABLE mytabl ENGINE = INNODB
but only got: " unknown table engine ‘innodb’ "
Checked with mysql> show engines \G
But the innodb wasn’t there…
Googled a lot for half a day and tested quite a bit, and learned there are two innodb versions A) the built in B) the plug-in.
So, I thought that it was only the built in that was not there.
So, under [mysqld] per instructions I added:
ignore_builtin_innodb
plugin_load=innodb=ha_innodb_plugin.dll ’ yes the file is in the \lib\plugin
No protests when the service is restarted…
Along with that I also tested skip-innodb and #skip-innodb in my.ini.
Still:
ALTER TABLE mytable ENGINE = innodb
produces unknown table engine…
In one place I have seen that there should be some twists to install this under Vista. (however the innodb site stated something like ~ “that procedure is not documented here”)
Oh, and yes - after each test I stopped and started the MYSQL service…
What is going on with INNODB? There are tons of docs on " unknown table engine ‘innodb’ " if googled upon. But no solutions!
Grateful for any tips!