In the 5.1.9-beta source tree it seems that some storage engine source
code is in the sql directory, some is in the storage directory, and yet
others put code in both.

Is there a preferred location?


Brian Aker, at the 2006 MySQL User Conference last week, mentioned that
the way to start a new storage engine is to duplicate the example
engine, and grep for example and change other source code in and around
grep example hits. I tried to do this and found that there are LOTS of
grep hits in the source code for example.

Instead I duplicated the blackhole engine, and made changes in and
around grep hits for blackhole.

This should be fine, right?


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On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:39:54PM -0600, Paul Whittington wrote:
it should all be in storage/<enginename>. the archive and csv storage
engines are good examples of this, the older engines have not been
brought up to date in this regard yet.

the way storage engines are plugged into the configuration has just
changed in the 5.1 tree. it is much more straightforward now. the
upcoming 5.1.10 will include these changes.

jim

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