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From: =?UTF-8?q?Michal=20=C4=8Ciha=C5=99?= <michal@cihar.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 17:36:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improve storage engines description from wiki
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Signed-off-by: Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>
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 doc/glossary.rst | 8 +++++++-
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diff --git a/doc/glossary.rst b/doc/glossary.rst
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--- a/doc/glossary.rst
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@@ -312,7 +312,13 @@ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
       .. seealso:: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)>
 
     Storage Engines
-      handlers for different table types	
+      MySQL can use several different formats for storing data on disk, these
+      are called storage engines or table types. phpMyAdmin allows a user to
+      change their storage engine for a particular table through the operations
+      tab.
+
+      Common table types are InnoDB and MyISAM, though many others exist and
+      may be desirable in some situations.
 
       .. seealso:: <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/storage-engines.html>