---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:13:17 -0500
>From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org (on behalf of J Sisson <sisson.j@gmail.com>)
>Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Time to put theory to the test?
>To: Rob Wultsch <wultsch@gmail.com>
>Cc: "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
>
>On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Rob Wultsch <wultsch@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tip from someone that manages thousands of MySQL servers: Use InnoDB
>> when using MySQL.
>
>Granted, my knowledge of PostgreSQL (and even MSSQL) far surpasses my
>knowledge of MySQL, but if InnoDB has such amazing benefits as being
>crash safe, and even speed increases in some instances, why isn't
>InnoDB default?
because it is. recently.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-default-se.html
