May 24, 2013

Percona Server 5.1.53-12.4

Percona Server version 5.1.53-12.4 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.53-12.4 is based on MySQL 5.1.53.  New Features Added: Precompiled UDFs for Maatkit (FNV and MurmurHash hash functions to provide faster checksums) are now included in distributions. Fixes feature request #689992. (Aleksandr Kuzminsky) [...]

Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3

Percona Server version 5.1.52-12.3 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona release candidate to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. The release also includes the HandlerSocket plugin, which provides NoSQL features in Percona Server. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 is now based on [...]

Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1

Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.50-rel12.1 RC is now available for download. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1 is now based on MySQL 5.1.50. New Features Added: innodb_lru_dump_restore – Implemented automatic dumping of the buffer pool at specified intervals. innodb_buffer_pool_shm – Implemented option ”innodb_buffer_pool_shm_checksum”; when enabled, shared memory buffer pool is checksum validated. This [...]

Percona Server 5.1.50-rel11.4

Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.50-rel11.4 is now available for download. The changes in this release include: New features The primary purpose of this release is to update to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Percona Server 5.1.50-rel11.4 is now based on MySQL 5.1.50. Fixed bugs innodb_use_sys_stats_table – The

table is now used only [...]

Percona Server 5.1.49-rel12.0

Dear Community, Starting with this release, we introduce a new release model for Percona Server. From now on, we will have both Stable and Release Candidate releases. Release Candidates will introduce new features not yet available in Stable releases. Along with new features, our new 5.1.49-12.0 RC contains a couple of patches from the Facebook-MySQL [...]

A few administrative updates

I wanted to write a few administrative updates in one so I didn’t spam everyone’s feed readers too much. Here we go: We’ve had reports of some lost comments.  We reported this via Twitter a while ago, but thought it was fixed.  We’ll try and pay more attention to spam filtering, but we wanted to [...]

When would you use SAN with MySQL ?

One question which comes up very often is when one should use SAN with MySQL, which is especially popular among people got used to Oracle or other Enterprise database systems which are quite commonly deployed on SAN. My question in such case is always what exactly are you trying to get by using SAN ?

MySQL Replication vs DRBD Battles

Well these days we see a lot of post for and against (more, more) using of MySQL and DRBD as a high availability practice. I personally think DRBD has its place but there are far more cases when other techniques would work much better for variety of reasons. First let me start with Florian’s comments [...]