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Re:The State of MySQL: The Elephant in the Room by davidw on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @01:22AM (#476642)
http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2008/9/3/ddl_transactions/

"MySQL doesn’t support DDL transactions;"

Meaning you can't change the schema transactionally. InnoDB handles data transactions ok, but I hadn't realized that it doesn't handle schema changes. It seems like I'm always discovering some little nasty about Mysql when I am forced to use it.

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