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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Ian!

On Feb 09, Ian Gilfillan wrote:
> What is the purpose/effect of having MariaDB's 
> default_tmp_storage_engine setting default to NULL instead of the 
> default used in MySQL, Innodb? I can't see any obvious differences in 
> behaviour.

NULL means "same as default_storage_engine"
That is, no matter what you change your default_storage_engine to be,
temporary tables will always use the same engine.

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
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