May 13, 2009

Global Transaction ID and other patches available!

Posted by Vadim |

I do not know if you noticed it, but Google (Mark Callaghan, Justin Tolmer and their internal mysql-team) made a great contribution to MySQL. Patches global transaction IDs, binlog event checksums and crash-safe replication state are separated and published on Launchpad (https://code.launchpad.net/~jtolmer/mysql-server/global-trx-ids).

For me it was a big wall in using these patches that they were part of one big patch, which you can apply only to 5.0.37, and now there is no barrier to include patches into our builds or MySQL releases.

If you do not know what is Global Transactional ID is – it is worth to look http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/wiki/GlobalTransactionIds. From my point of view – it is absolutely new view on MySQL replication and it can change MySQL replication architecture.

We definitely will look if we can integrate patches into percona builds and provide binaries if there is no problems. Also I mostly sure the patches will be included into MariaDB along with other Percona-improvements and XtraDB storage engine.

Posted by Vadim @ 3:52 pm :: patch :: 9 comments
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Open Database Alliance – allies welcome

Posted by peter |

Percona and Monty Programming AB announced formation of Open Database Alliance. Read on press release for details.

Posted by peter @ 10:30 am :: community :: 2 comments
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MySQL Meetups Sponsorship Available

Posted by peter |

As you know Sun/MySQL and MeetUp.com could not agree on terms of the sponsorship and so now all MySQL meetup organizers have to pay for their Meetups or move them to the different location. Facebook is suggested as one of alternatives.

I’m not to take any sides in this story and judge who is wrong and who is right but I think it is quite a bad situation to be forced to move off meetup with just a 7 days notice. It may be good idea to host communities in the space which does not make organizers dependent on the sponsor but I think Meetup organizers deserve more time to arrange the move.

We spoke with Jeremy Cole and agreed it will be a good idea to offer the sponsorship MySQL Meetup organizers looking to stick with Meetup.com a little longer. You can read Jeremy’s posts on the same matter here.

P.S I just found out Open Query also offers Sponsorship so it looks like refugees will have a significant choice :)

Posted by peter @ 9:36 am :: community :: 2 comments
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