Merge pull request #99 from lsst/tickets/DM-45725

DM-45725: Change default table engine to MyISAM

docs/user-guide/databases.rst

@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ To create a MySQL database from a schema file, the command would look similar to
 
 In this case, the database would already need to have been created or the command will fail.
 
+Tables in MySQL will by default use the ``MyISAM`` storage engine, which does not support foreign keys.
+The engine can be changed in the table object of the schema by setting ``mysql:engine`` to ``InnoDB`` or another valid table engine name.
+
 PostgreSQL
 ^^^^^^^^^^
 

python/felis/datamodel.py

@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ class Table(BaseObject):
  tap_table_index: int | None = Field(None, alias="tap:table_index")
  """IVOA TAP_SCHEMA table index of the table."""
 
- mysql_engine: str | None = Field(None, alias="mysql:engine")
+ mysql_engine: str | None = Field("MyISAM", alias="mysql:engine")
  """MySQL engine to use for the table."""
 
  mysql_charset: str | None = Field(None, alias="mysql:charset")