From: Gaspard Bucher <gaspard@...>
Date: 2007-09-16T04:22:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Slow RAILS testing

I tried this, but HEAP does not support transactions either. From what
I see, it feels like it's going to be much slower to reload the
fixtures then to do a ROLLBACK...

2007/9/15, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com>:
> Travis D Warlick Jr wrote:
>
> >  ALTER TABLE tablename TYPE=HEAP;
>
> Ain't that ENGINE=HEAP?
>
>
> Gaspard Bucher wrote:
>
> > HEAP does not support TEXT columns... Too bad.
>
> Suppose one wrote a rake task db:heap_mode, to switch the test environment
> DB to the faster system. Could that task programmatically access schema.rb,
> find the TEXT columns, and downgrade them to long strings?
>
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