the improved memory engine documentation doesn't mention that temp tables don't use this optimization completely

Bug #1190983 reported by Kenny Gryp
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Percona Server moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PS
Status tracked in 5.7
5.1
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5.5
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Hrvoje Matijakovic
5.6
Fix Released
Medium
Hrvoje Matijakovic
5.7
Fix Released
Medium
Hrvoje Matijakovic

Bug Description

As mentioned by Laurynas: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/09/06/dynamic-row-format-for-memory-tables/
One quite important feature is missing from this release however: MyISAM tables are still used for temporary tables where the MEMORY tables with dynamic row format could be used instead: for schemas containing large VARCHARs, BLOB, TEXT. Unfortunately, enabling this feature is not trivial, but we are working on this and expect to deliver it in a future release.

It is not mentioned in the documentation (at http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/flexibility/improved_memory_engine.html) that this is true or false.

I think it's quite confusing as temp tables in memory use the MEMORY storage engine, so if undocumented I would think that this improvement also counts for temp tables.

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Hrvoje Matijakovic (hrvojem) wrote :
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Hrvoje Matijakovic (hrvojem) wrote :
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Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar) wrote :

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-1384

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