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SHOW ENGINES output table is not really informative

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      SHOW ENGINES output has the following columns:

      • Engine
      • Support
      • Comment
      • Transactions
      • XA
      • Savepoints

      First 3 columns are general purpose and useful. Others are related to specific features. Transactions is probably useful but it's a special case. XA and especially Savepoints are not more important than other features, like indexes, compression, fulltext, GIS, etc. Sometimes feature-related columns are even confusing (FEDERATED). I suggest to remove them - otherwise you should choose between be consistent and having a reasonable number of columns.

      An important column is also missing: you should indicate which storage engines can be used in CREATE TABLE. PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA and INFORMATION_SCHEMA can't.

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            f_razzoli Federico Razzoli
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