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[Stewart Smith <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:27:44 +0100, Paul McCullagh <paul.mccullagh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This would make it possible to prevent startup of the server if  
> recovery fails. But I am not so sure this is an advantage.

I've always been in 2 minds about this....

my guess is that a lot of code for "is this server alive" at most:
a) connects to socket
b) runs "SELECT 1;"

and none of them actually check the storage engine you're using is okay.

-- 
Stewart Smith