Lol, the installer program that installs vbulletin to your server.
Oh hahaha. Well let me ask you this then. I just did a fresh install of vb 3.7.2 and about 98% of the tables are all InnoDB. Now as time passes how did they get changed? From upgrades or something? Which is better to run MyISAM or InnoDB?
There has been no change AFAIK in the recommended storage engine. Unless i missed something we still do recommend MyIsam as storage engine.
Tabes will be created by vBulletin using the default storage engine as set for the database. A few tables that need a specific storage type (some HEAP/In memory tables, and some forced to MyIsam) and will always be created using that storage engine, regardless of the database default.
PS The only thing that changed is that newer MySQL versions (on some Ooperting Systems) now use InnoDB as default for a database unless specified otherwise.
There has been no change AFAIK in the recommended storage engine. Unless i missed something we still do recommend MyIsam as storage engine.
Tabes will be created by vBulletin using the default storage engine as set for the database. A few tables that need a specific storage type (some HEAP/In memory tables, and some forced to MyIsam) and will always be created using that storage engine, regardless of the database default.
PS The only thing that changed is that newer MySQL versions (on some Ooperting Systems) now use InnoDB as default for a database unless specified otherwise.
When you install vbulletin doesn't it specify which engine each table is supposed to use? So when I install a fresh copy of vb it is specifying to use InnoDB and not MyISAM
And what I wrote in post #2. It's fine though - It can be confusing.
But some people said that MyISAM is faster. In this case, is there any point in converting to MyISAM from InnoDB (in order to gain some speed) ?
If MyISAM is faster, why doesn't the default install specify what storage engine to use for each table ? Why let the user configuration decide (depending on MySql version) when the developers could have just used MyISAM as a default ? (not using the database default)