The InnoDB Plugin introduces the idea of a named file format and a configuration parameter to enable the use of features that require use of that format. The new file format is the “Barracuda” format, and the file format supported by prior releases of InnoDB is called file format “Antelope”. Compressed tables and the new row format that stores long columns “off-page” require the use of the “Barracuda” file format or newer. Future versions of InnoDB may introduce a series of file formats, identified with the names of animals, in ascending alphabetical order.
Beginning with this release, every InnoDB per-table tablespace
file is labeled with a file format identifier. This does not
apply to the system tablespace (the ibdata
files)
but only the files of separate tablespaces (the
*.ibd
files where tables and indexes are stored in
their own tablespace). As noted below, however, the system
tablespace is …