I’m not suggesting to turn off the binary log. I think you have some assumptions that you may not have validated. The file that’s loaded on the master IS transmitted to replicas, in a number of special binary log events (of type “Load_file” if I recall correctly).
Comment: How to load large files safely into InnoDB with LOAD DATA INFILE
Comment: How to load large files safely into InnoDB with LOAD DATA INFILE
… show what you’ve said and I do agree that turning off session binlog is the right strategy to go with. But…
Comment: How to load large files safely into InnoDB with LOAD DATA INFILE
… the source and it’s probably a good idea to turn off the session’s binary log in general. But if it…
Comment: How to change innodb_log_file_size safely
… the current my.cnf file. I renamed it and copied /usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.0.95/my-medium.cnf to /etc/my.cnf After…
Comment: How to change innodb_log_file_size safely
It may not even be using that my.cnf file. Or you may have the options in the wrong section of the file.
Comment: How to change innodb_log_file_size safely
… other than /etc/my.cnf [root@tstlx1 mysql]# locate my.cnf /etc/my.cnf /etc/my.cnf.old /etc/my.cnf.rpmnew [root@tstlx1 mysql]# cat /etc/my.cnf | grep log_file…
Comment: How to change innodb_log_file_size safely
…) This works on my site on a Debian Squeeze system where I have to edit: /etc/mysql/my.cnf Also make sure that innodb_buffer_pool_size is for performance reasons set to x4 of log file size. On my… 32M x 4 = 128M innodb_buffer_pool_size). According to my previous posts in this blog a dynamic innodb log file…
Comment: Choosing proper innodb_log_file_size
… user’s VM doing heavy activity on the disk. Also, my DB has also slowed down other user’s apps. IMO… out on a copy / testing DB in peak time and off-peak hours for your location. VPS and shared hosting are…
Comment: ext4 vs xfs on SSD
… the box, while XFS required poorly documented knobs to be turned and still couldn’t beat ext4: http://blog.tsunanet.net… another benchmark. What I found with XFS is that, to my great surprise, changing the number of allocation groups, setting the…
Post: Zero-Downtime Schema Changes In MySQL
… of yesterday’s webinar, as well as a PDF of my slide deck, is now available. You can watch the recording… implemented. Q: periodically the ALTER isn’t written to the bin-log and thus isn’t replicated, why ? without any replication… does NOT have any features to disable the binary log; my experience has been that this is a very dangerous thing…

