[wp-hackers] Lost categories upgrading to 2.5.1

[Otto]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Sabin Iacob <iacobs at m0n5t3r.info> wrote:
>  perhaps because mysql won't give you transactions by default? this could
> be, of course, solved by making the tables InnoDB when initially installing,
> provided the host has it configured (the read performance - which is what
> matters for a blog/CMS - should be about the same for InnoDB and MyISAM, but
> I have yet to see a comparison between the two using Wordpress).

Ahh. Didn't know that. Did some research and yeah, transactions are
not supported properly on MyISAM tables, which kinda blows IMO.

Of course, the next upgrade could also have "ALTER TABLE whatever
ENGINE = InnoDB" in it...