On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for your response. I know what MariaDB is, is just that I know
InnoDB as is does not exist on MariaDB but a replacement (XtraDB)
which I know does not implement everything InnoDB does. It doesn't
mean it wouldn't implement everything we (Koha) need.
Do we need to change ENGINE=InnoDB in our dumps to test?

As I said, I did a simple drop-in replacement of MySQL with MariaDB, making only a couple of syntactical changes to SQL statements as mentioned. I did not find it necessary to change the engine type. Again, this was not on a production system. That said, I never had any problems adding, removing, editing, searching records during the time I ran MariaDB. I did not dump and re-import my dbs, though, I let MariaDB run over the DB files MySQL had created.

I'm not advocating this sort of move untested, only saying that many months of working over it did not scare up any major issues from my prospective. Its been quite a while ago, so I could be forgetting something and certainly ymmv as always.

Kind Regards,
Chris