Converting an existing MyISAM database to InnoDB with Django

Question

Is there anyway I can convert a full populated MyISAM database to InnoDB (in a way that will create all foreign key contraints, same way it would be if I ran the syncdb command

Answer 1

This might help:

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
from django.db import connections


class Command(BaseCommand):

    def handle(self, database="default", *args, **options):

        cursor = connections[database].cursor()

        cursor.execute("SHOW TABLE STATUS")

        for row in cursor.fetchall():
            if row[1] != "InnoDB":
                print "Converting %s" % row[0],
                print cursor.execute("ALTER TABLE %s ENGINE=INNODB" % row[0])

Add that to your app under the folders management/commands/ Then you can convert all your tables with a manage.py command:

python manage.py convert_to_innodb