June 19, 2013

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.2 for MySQL available for download

… the 2.1 series. Bugs Fixed: Using Perl’s DBD::MySQL package for server communication instead of spawning the MySQL command line client introduced… correctly for latest Percona Server and MySQL 5.1 releases which could cause innobackupex to fail. Bugs fixed #1181092, #1181099 and #1180905. When…

Post: Percona Playback 0.6 for MySQL now available

… dispatcher plugin. Bugs fixed: Percona Playback for MySQL now shows error when it’s unable to connect to the MySQL database server. Bug fixed #1070824 (Vlad Lesin). Multi-line query parsing has been improved. Bug fixed #1080648 (Vlad Lesin). Missing…

Post: Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 released; bug fixes include pt-heartbeat & pt-archiver

… Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 the week before last, we quietly released Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 with a few bug fixes: pt… mode when –function is used And more The first two bugs are important. Those using pt-archiver –bulk-insert with UTF…-toolkit/+milestone/2.2.2 for the full list of bugs fixed in Percona Toolkit 2.2.2. Visit http://www.percona…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 for MySQL available for download

… cause XtraBackup to crash. Bug fixed #1166888. Package dependency has been changed from abstract mysql to real /usr/bin/mysql file, because rpm packages… longer satisfied mysql dependency which is required by the XtraBackup rpms. Bug fixed #1095972. Percona XtraBackup would fail when preparing the MySQL 5.6…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 'release candidate' for MySQL available for download

… TABLE IMPORT TABLESPACE on MySQL and Percona Server 5.6 as described in Exporting and Importing Tables guide. Bugs Fixed: Percona XtraBackup would… taken which speeds up the backup process. Bug fixed #1130145. Due to different implementation in MySQL 5.6 error messages were not printed… –version message which should include the revision was showing “undefined”. Bug fixed #1171721. Other bugs fixed: bug fixed #1088307, bug fixed #1088309, bug fixed #1170340.

Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.1.1 GA

… Perl’s DBD::MySQL package for server communication instead of spawning the MySQL command line client…. in a separate directory. Bug fixed #1174314. Other bugs fixed: bug fixed #1166713, bug fixed #1175581, bug fixed #1175318, bug fixed #1175309, bug fixed #1176198, bug fixed #1175566. Release notes…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL alpha now available

… the features and bug fixes in Percona XtraBackup for MySQL 2.0.6, plus the following: New Features Percona XtraBackup for MySQL now has… removed in Percona XtraBackup for MySQL 2.1. Bugs Fixed: innobackupex now supports empty arguments in the –password option. Bug fixed #1032667 (Andrew Gaul). Release…

Post: Follow these basics when migrating to Percona XtraDB Cluster for MySQL

Galera/Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) for MySQL is a hot thing right now and some users jump … if you can leave them behind. Lastly, once that bug above is fixed, and you still have MyISAM tables you wish to… use during certification becomes non-deterministic. Although the previous bug has been fixed on latest release (5.5.30-23.7.4…

Post: MySQL 5.6 Compatible Percona Toolkit 2.2 Released

… series for which we plan to do only one more bug fix release (as 2.1.10) then retire. 2.2 is… of the DBD::mysql Perl module that have problems. And there are certain versions of MySQL that have critical bugs. Version check will….  For example, three tools were removed, and there were several bug fixes. See https://launchpad.net/percona-toolkit/+milestone/2.2.1…

Post: Memory allocators: MySQL performance improvements in Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2

… that mutex. See an example of such an issue. Related bugs: BUG#54982, BUG#49169. 2) memory allocation for read-view structure is… test for glibc and jemalloc allocators. Observations: = MySQL 5.5.30 – throughput of MySQL 5.5.30 with glibc is limited first… helps MySQL 5.5.30 to fix issues with malloc scalability but still scanning of the transaction list causes performance drop = MySQL 5…