Its almost a month since I promised Heikki Tuuri to answer Innodb Questions. Heikki is a busy man so I got answers… comments to some of the questions. HT will stand for Heikki Tuuri in the answers and PZ for myself. Q1: Why… reference only a prefix of the primary key. PZ: Thanks Heikki, Remember we’re waiting you to answer second portion of…
Post: Heikki Tuuri answers to Innodb questions, Part II
… answers to the second portions of the questions you asked Heikki. If you have not seen the first part it can… the answers under PZ and will use HT for original Heikkis answer. Q26: You also say on Unix/Linux only one… would take days to do operations on them. Idea for Heikki – it should be possible to implement online reorganize which locks…
Post: Heikki Tuuri to answer your in depth Innodb questions
…. Now you have a great chance to have them answered ! Heikki Tuuri, Creator of Innodb will answer your Questions about Innodb… by 5th of October and I will pass them to Heikki to reply merging with questions I have myself. Note: due to Oracle policies Heikki will likely be unable to answer your questions about Innodb…
Comment: SELECT LOCK IN SHARE MODE and FOR UPDATE
… example you give is: DELETE FROM USERS WHERE NAME LIKE “%Heikki%”; First of all, mysql will not be able to use… of records (or zero records) that have a NAME with Heikki in it. No consider the following schedule: BEGIN BEGIN [nothing happens here] INSERT “fooHeikkibar” DELETE WHERE NAME LIKE “%Heikki%”; [nothing happens here] INSERT “barHeikkifoo” END END In this schedule…
Post: MySQL Users Conference - Innodb
… Index Creation This is another feature which I was asking Heikki about probably since my first days as Innodb user when… in multiple value insert to be sequential. To be honest Heikki probably took a bit of shortcut and kept code simple… hope to port some of them to MySQL 5.0+ Heikki also mentioned there are more things inside Innodb to unleash…
Post: My Innodb Feature wishes
At Users Conference Heikki did good presentation about Innodb planned features. I did not … has which in certain cases makes them 10 times + larger. Heikki plans to have gzip like page compression but it would… so it is not easy to fix. But I guess Heikki will have to do it otherwise with raise of MultiCores…
Post: Interested to learn about New Innodb Plugin Performance ?
… version for MySQL 5.1 So now you can see Heikki and the Team were not just doing only bug fixes… this Plugin you’re welcome to come to presentation by Heikki and Ken which will be followed by my presentation on…
Comment: Heikki Tuuri to answer your in depth Innodb questions
[...] almost a month since I promised Heikki Tuuri to answer Innodb Questions. Heikki is a busy man so I got answers to only some of the questions but as people still poking me [...]
Comment: SELECT LOCK IN SHARE MODE and FOR UPDATE
…€”— TR1 – BEGIN TR1 – DELETE FROM USERS WHERE NAME LIKE “%Heikki%”; TR2 – BEGIN TR2 – INSERT INTO USERS VALUES(“HeikkiTuuri”); TR2 – END TR1 – SELECT NAME FROM USERS WHERE NAME LIKE “%Heikki%” LOCK IN SHARE MODE TR1 – END If the DELETE statement…
Post: Innodb Recovery - Is large buffer pool always better ?
… be affecting performance on normal workloads as well. Lets hope Heikki will find a time to assign this to someone to be fixed soon
Update: Heikki is telling me it only happens on recovery which is…

