May 24, 2012

Comment: ext4 vs xfs on SSD

… not often see discussion in comments, but this is what makes it interesting. I am in open source business myself, so… recommend that or another product/filesystem? For me – amount of bugs (how stable it is) is one of most important factors…

Post: Multi Range Read (MRR) in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5

… not have the relevant pages loaded up already: MRR does make a lot of difference when the workload is IO bound… using the PK column value in the index record to make a lookup in the PK. Both these lookups are performed… 5.5, and this does not make sense to me. Probably its due to a bug in how counter is calculated inside…

Post: Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 released!

… as we have a couple of important bug fixes that we wish to make available. Bugs Fixed: Fixed a memory corruption regression introduced in 5.5.18-23.0. Bug fixed #915814 (Alexey… on upgrade to 5.5.20 and 5.5.21. Bug fixed #966844 (Stewart Smith). Full release notes are available in…

Post: Percona Toolkit 2.0.4 released

… is available for immediate download. This release fixes 25 bugs and is a bug-fix release only, with the exception of a… available on Launchpad. There are links to the documentation, downloads, bug reporting system, and mailing list on the toolkit homepage. Percona… to a release series and keep upgrading as we fix bugs; we won’t make major changes.

Post: Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release

… on Percona Server 5.5.20. With this release we make clustering very easy and affordable for everyone. You can convert… an General Availability release. We did our best to eliminate bugs and problems during alpha and beta testing release, but this…-XtraDB-Cluster/ Documentation Codership Wiki General Discussion group Launchpad project Bug reports Previous posts on this topic: Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature…

Post: Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool

… 2.1 version of the tool removes those limitations and makes the tool fully featured and much easier to use. The… mailing list, get the source code from Launchpad, and file bug reports on Launchpad. PS: in addition to Percona Toolkit’s… the Percona Monitoring Plugins project. It features a variety of bug fixes.

Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!

… do appear to have done is shift a lot of bugs into their private tracker. Mark Callaghan noticed the change around… last year: http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2011/02/where-have-bugs-gone.html and it’s not improved since. With private… gains, or if MariaDB are basically doing that work and making it clear what is and what isn’t security fixes…

Comment: Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 released!

Stewart, Thank you for rolling out this release promptly. It is great to see you can make a new release promptly than there are critical customer affecting bugs to be fixed.

Comment: Btw xtrabackup is not only backup..

… a tip about what directory. Also, there are several documented bugs in the Percona docs that have been filed on this… me to log a ticket with Consulting so they can make a few bucks?

Post: Making bugs public - good job MySQL

…. To be honest at that time bugs were reported via bugs mailing list not via bugs database as they are now so they… complexity you can’t hope to have zero bugs, especially as some bugs are design bugs which require a lot of work to… for very long time kept silence about known bugs in releases – the bugs were in bugs database of course but it is quite…