May 25, 2012

Post: Percona welcomes Drizzle 7.1

…API (experimental) Some of the Percona InnoDB patches have been merged Since Drizzle 7.0… Drizzle protocol plugin, authentication from a file, MySQL UNIX socket protocol, javascript plugin, authentication via …implemented in relatively small amounts of code. Installing Drizzle 7.1.33-stable The source…

Post: What's the recommended MySQL version?

… question by understanding whether we’re talking about an existing MySQL installation, or a new one. The answer is different for each… should really be about features, not bug fixes or security patches; those critical fixes should be applied to the previous version…, and now I’d even say use MySQL 5.6. For older applications running MySQL 5.0, I’d say upgrade to…

Post: Updated msl (microslow) patch, installation walk-through!

… where the sources archive and the patch is. First you should determine how your current MySQL installation was built, so you can have… ready to have the patched MySQL installed in the system. Locate where the original mysqld binary is with: (garfield:~/work/mysql-5.0.51a… patch for MySQL 5.0.45 msl patch for MySQL 5.0.51a msl patch for MySQL 5.0.54a msl patch for MySQL 5.0.56 msl patch

Post: New patches, new builds

installation patches. Second is “-percona-highperf” release, which contains experimental patches that can improve performance significantly. On this stage “percona-highperf” contains patchesPATCHES command, which is based on Jeremy Cole’s patch mysql> show patches; …

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

…’s a /var/lib/mysql and an /etc/my.cnf, and the server is installed in /customsoftware/mysql with a different my.cnf… has the Percona patches for microsecond logging and additional information in the slow query log output. The stock MySQL server’s limitation….) If it’s not possible to use a patched binary, we can use MySQL Proxy, packet sniffing, or other techniques to get…

Post: 5.0.86-build19 Percona binaries

… the patches here http://www.percona.com/mysql/5.0.86-b19/ There is Debian packages repository available since Build 19. To install MySQL with Percona patches with APT…-get update # apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 The Percona patches live on Launchpad : https://launchpad.net/percona-patches and you can report…

Post: Percona Server 5.0.90-build21

… with the patches from Percona web site. To upgrade from MySQL server to Percona SQL you need remove MySQL installation first, then install Percona-SQL-server and Percona-SQL-client: # yum remove mysql-server mysql-client … # yum install Percona-SQL-server…

Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software

… support them. The builds power some of the most demanding MySQL installations in the world. All code has to be vetted very… contribute your patches back to MySQL?” We do contribute our patches. They are GPL-licensed, which is both generous and fair, and MySQL is… get Sun/MySQL to accept the patches — it wouldn’t add any extra value. We’d like Sun/MySQL to accept the patches, but…

Post: Percona Server security fix releases

… 5.0 and Percona Server / XtraDB 5.1 with security patches. Fixed bugs: Bug#53371, CVE-2010-1848 Bug#53237, CVE… know that there still are many active MySQL 4.0 and MySQL 4.1 installations and we understand how hard it is upgrade….1. With published exploits these installation are now under serious risks. If you are interested in backporting patches to 4.0 / 4…

Post: Introducing percona-patches for 5.1

… to move the patches to 5.1. To refresh, the most interesting patches are: Performance patches for InnoDB ®. Although many patches are present in XtraDB / InnoDB-plugin, the RC status of plugin does not allow to install…, InnoDB timing, profiling info – Userstat patch Different patches to help with day to day usage of MySQL ® Two new features which not…