… bug fix release (as 2.1.10) then retire. 2.2 is largely backward-compatible with 2.1, but some tools were changed… We started beta support for MySQL 5.6 in 2.1.8 when 5.6 was still beta. Now that MySQL 5.6 is GA, so… updated since. Now that we have four base versions of MySQL (5.0, 5.1, 5.5, and 5.6), plus at least four major forks (Percona Server…
Post: Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.3 for MySQL now available
…the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.3 for MySQL — high-quality components to add enterprise-grade MySQL monitoring and graphing capabilities …in the form of templates, plugins, and scripts. Changelog: * MySQL 5.6 compatibility for InnoDB graphs (bug 1124292) * Added performance data to …
Post: MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6 default variable values differences
… of 1MB while in MySQL 5.5 and before it was “ON” by default with query cache size of 0 which makes it disabled…_cost_based=on,use_index_extensions=on 1 row in set (0.00 sec) Summary: MySQL 5.6 comes with quite a few changes… some cases I think MySQL 5.6 does not go far enough in those changes but I can understand compatibility concerns and being…
Post: Percona Server 5.5.14-20.5
…, have been to improve compatibility for those upgrading from MySQL 5.0 or 5.1 prior to version 5.1.24. A fix for a MySQL bug (#27877) introduced an incompatible change in collations in MySQL 5.1.24…
Post: Percona Welcomes MySQL 5.6!
…, we’re working hard towards MySQL 5.6 integration with Percona Software. Percona Toolkit 2.1 already supports MySQL 5.6. Improved support is coming… Plugins are also MySQL 5.6 compatible. Percona Xtrabackup support for MySQL 5.6 is coming next month with Percona Xtrabackup 2.0.6. Though used…
Post: 5.0.87-build20 Percona binaries
… build is based on MySQL-5.0.87 innodb_rw_lock.patch is ported from InnoDB Plugin 1.0.3 To be compatible with RedHat RPM… changed to
Post: MySQL Upgrade Webinar Questions Followup
… MySQL 5.0 to 5.5 for MyISAM tables? MyISAM have not been getting any significant development since MySQL 4.1, so in-place upgrade of MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.5…. Q: How safe is it to upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to Percona Server 5.5 Compatibility is our highest priority with Percona Server, so it…
Post: MySQL 5.5.8 - in search of stability
… disable doublewrite; that is, set innodb_doublewrite=0. Now, although throughput is not a perfect line…NOTPM. This is 1.4x better than we have with the stable line in MySQL 5.5.8. But, finally…73 NOTPM. The throughput is about 1.33x better than in “MySQL compatible mode”, though it requires 10500MB …
Post: Upgrading MySQL
… one. MySQL always was very good maintaining on disk binary compatibility between version and so you can run MySQL 5.0 database with MySQL 5.1 with no problems in most cases. When storage type changes, such as DECIMAL field got whole another meaning in MySQL 5.0 MySQL…
Post: Percona Server 5.1.49-rel12.0
… with new features, our new 5.1.49-12.0 RC contains a couple of patches from the Facebook-MySQL tree – https://launchpad.net… features Percona Server 5.1.49-rel12.0 is based on MySQL 5.1.49. New features added: error_pad – Implements error code compatibilities with MySQL 5.5. (Oleg Tsarev…

