On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Greg Stark<stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
> I thought somewhere here would find this amusing:
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.4/en/blackhole-storage-engine.html
>
> (Actually I can see how it's useful, but...)
Right - for those who didn't bother to read the documentation, the
ability to ship logs and filter without I/O overhead of replaying the
binary log into storage is useful. The other use case is testing.
-selena
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