I did a Webinar about MySQL Upgrade – Best Practices Yesterday and there were some questions we could not answer during Webinar, following Jay’s Lead I decided to post them as a Blog Post. Q: Can you go directly MySQL 5.0 to 5.5 for MyISAM tables? MyISAM have not been getting any significant development since [...]
The story of one MySQL Upgrade
October 8, 2010 By 8 Comments
I recently worked on upgrading MySQL from one of very early MySQL 5.0 versions to Percona Server 5.1. This was a classical upgrade scenario which can cause surprises. Master and few slaves need to be upgraded. It is a shared database used by tons of applications written by many people over more than 5 years [...]
Percona Server security fix releases
May 23, 2010 By 4 Comments
As you may know MySQL ® announced 5.0.91 and 5.1.47 with serious security fixes, so we provide binary releases of Percona Server 5.0 and Percona Server / XtraDB 5.1 with security patches. Fixed bugs: Bug#53371, CVE-2010-1848 Bug#53237, CVE-2010-1850 Bug#50974, CVE-2010-1849 Release Percona Server 5.0.91-rel22 is available in our download area: http://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.0/Percona-Server-5.0.91-22/ Release Percona Server/XtraDB 5.1.45-rel10.2 [...]
Upgrading MySQL
January 5, 2010 By 23 Comments
Upgrading MySQL Server is a very interesting task as you can approach it with so much different “depth”. For some this is 15 minutes job for others it is many month projects. Why is that ? Performing MySQL upgrade two things should normally worry you. It is Regressions – functionality regressions when what you’ve been [...]
7 Reasons why MySQL Quality will never be the same
December 10, 2008 By 15 Comments
I had a call with Monty the other day and I told him why I think MySQL Server Quality will never be the same again. I’ve been thinking a bit more about it and here is the extended list. In particular I think MySQL Server will never be able to reach its original quality guidelines [...]
MySQL End Of Life (EOL) Policy
August 22, 2008 By 6 Comments
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 [...]
More Gotchas with MySQL 5.0
July 27, 2007 By 23 Comments
Working on large upgrade of MySQL 4.1 running Innodb to MySQL 5.0 and doing oprofile analyzes we found very interesting issue of buf_get_latched_pages_number being responsible for most CPU usage. It did not look right. The close look revealed this is the function which is used to compute number of latched pages in Innodb Buffer Pool, [...]
MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 Upgrade performance regressions
June 6, 2007 By 8 Comments
This week I already had two serious performance regression cases when upgrading from MySQL 4.0 and 4.1 to MySQL 5.0. By serious I mean several times performance difference not just 5-10% you often see for simple queries due to generally fatter code. The problem in both cases was MySQL 5.0 broken group commit bug. First [...]
MySQL Installation and upgrade scripts.
May 21, 2007 By 3 Comments
I generally find MySQL Sever sufficiently tested, meaning at least minor version upgrades rarely cause the problems. Of course it is not perfect and I remember number of big issues when some releases could not be used due to behavior changes in them and when something had to be rolled back in the next release. [...]
Even minor upgrades are not always safe
September 4, 2006 By 5 Comments
I already wrote couple of weeks ago I keep most of my systems on MySQL 4.1 still as they will not benefit from MySQL 5.0 features anyway while I do not want to likely loose a bit of performance and possibly deal with new bugs and changes introduced in MySQL 5.0 (You never know where [...]
