Dear Community, The build 17 of MySQL with Percona patches is available. New features in the release: MySQL-5.0.83 is taken as the basis The new patch innodb_use_sys_malloc.patch is added The new patch innodb_split_buf_pool_mutex.patch is added This patch splits the single global InnoDB buffer pool mutex into several mutexes for different purposes. This reduces mutex contention. [...]
MySQL 5.1 went to GA. Was it a good move ?
MySQL 5.1 release as “GA” seems to be the most controversial to date. It had very negative response from Monty, original MySQL Founder and controversial responses in community including another beating by Kevin Burton. There is also very interesting reading on MySQL 5.1 open bugs So how do I take it and where do I [...]
What is stored InnoDB buffer pool
Ever wonder what is stored in InnoDB buffer pool at the moment ? It is not so hard actually – we made a short patch for MySQL 5.0 which show innodb buffer pool content
MySQL End Of Life (EOL) Policy
We’ve discussed today how we should implement MySQL Version advisory in mk-audit tool. One obvious questions was to look at the end of life – it is often bad idea to run MySQL versions past end of life as even security bugs may not be fixed in these (though do not get paranoid, if you’re [...]
CentOS Comes with free build of MySQL Enterprise ?
As I already wrote you can well go to Linux distribution vendors if you’re looking for recent MySQL version in a hassle free binary form. (On the time of this writing you could only get binaries for MySQL Community 5.0.45 from MySQL Download Pages which was released in July and so about half a year [...]
MySQL sources from development tree
I just want to write few tips how to get MySQL from development BitKeeper tree, as there are several tricks. First of all you need a fresh free client – bk-client2.0 http://www.bitkeeper.com/Hosted.Downloading.html . Once you get it, you can clone latest tree: bkf clone bk://mysql.bkbits.net/mysql-5.0 mysql-5.0 New client supports “changes” command, so you can look [...]
Where to get recent MySQL version ?
As you might noticed there are no recent MySQL Community versions available for download from MySQL Download Area This applies both to binaries (which is expected with new polices) but also to the source files which were promised to be available. So what is if you would like to use recent MySQL code while staying [...]

