Dear Community, As of today the 19-th build of MySQL server with Percona patches is available. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.86 Fix from Neil Katin to userstatv2.patch fix InnoDB slowness with large queries Fixed bugs in the build: Bug #413858 in Percona patches: “Crash [...]
XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-6
Dear community, Today we are pleased to announce release 6 of XtraDB – the result of 2 months hard work. The release includes following new features: MySQL 5.1.36 as a base release New patch
1 | innodb_recovery_patches.patch |
Experimental adaptive checkpoint method estimate innodb_stats – the implementation of the fix forMySQL Bug#30423 expand-import Support of import InnoDB / [...]
xtrabackup-0.8
Dear community, The release 0.8 of the opensource backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB is available for download. Key features: New mode of innobackupex –stream=tar4ibd; new command tar4ibd based on libtar-1.2.11 Experimental option –export is added (see Vadim’s post “Impossible – possible, moving InnoDB tables between servers”for details) tar4ibd is made to be sure that [...]
xtrabackup-0.3, binaries and stream backup
We are coming with next version of xtrabackup – online backup solution for MySQL 5.0 / 5.1 and InnoDB standard version, plugin modification and XtraDB. We still consider it as alpha version, though it shows perfect stable results in our tests. Let me address two often asked question about xtrabackup: 1) Does it work only [...]
Debian / Ubuntu Percona builds
We had too many requests for deb builds of Percona releases so I could not ignore that and added scripts to build binaries on our Ubuntu 8.10 box. It’s going to be only 64bit releases (32bit is dead, isn’t it?), and I tested binaries on Debian Lenny system and it seems working fine. So I [...]
MySQL Binaries Percona build10
We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 10 which include next fixes: We addressed concerns about potential logging and statistics overhead, so now you can fully turn on / off query statistics for microslow patch and user statistics in runtime. Next variables were added:
1 2 3 4 5 6 | | slow_query_log | ON | | slow_query_log_file | /var/lib/mysql/slow_query.log | for compatibility with MySQL 5.1 and | userstat_running | OFF | to control gathering of user statistics. |
With both slow_query_log = OFF and userstat_running = OFF [...]
Percona build7 with latest patches
We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 7 which include patches we recently announced. The -percona release includes:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | | innodb_check_defrag.patch | Session status to check fragmentation of the last InnoDB scan | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | The names are Innodb_scan_* | | userstatsv2.patch | SHOW USER/TABLE/INDEX statistics | V2 | Google | GPL | Added INFORMATION_SCHEMA.*_STATISTICS | | show_patches.patch | SHOW PATCHES | 1.0 | Jeremy Cole | N/A | | | innodb_io_patches.patch | Cluster of past InnoDB IO patches | 1.0 | Percona | GPL | This patch contains fixed (control_flush_and_merge_and_read, control_io-threads, adaptive_flush) | | innodb_show_hashed_memory.patch | Adds additional information of InnoDB internal hash table memories in SHOW INNODB STATUS | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | | innodb_io_pattern.patch | Information schema table of InnoDB IO counts for each datafile pages | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_IO_PATTERN | | microsec_process.patch | Adds INFOMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST with TIME_MS column | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | | innodb_locks_held.patch | Add locks held, remove locked records in SHOW INNODB STATUS | 1.0 | Baron Schwartz <baron@xaprb.com> | GPL | Bug #29126 fix | | microslow_innodb.patch | Extended statistics in slow.log | 1.1 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | | mysqld_safe_syslog.patch | Patch allows redirect output of error.log to syslog-ng | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | Ported from Debian | | innodb_fsync_source.patch | Information of fsync callers in InnoDB | 1.0 | Google | GPL | | | innodb_show_bp.patch | show innodb buffer pool content | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | | |
and -percona-highperf release additionaly includes
1 2 | | split_buf_pool_mutex_fixed_optimistic_safe.patch | InnoDB patch to fix buffer pool scalability | 1.0 | Yasufumi Kinoshita | BSD | | | innodb_rw_lock.patch | Fix of InnoDB rw_locks | 1.0 | Yasufumi Kinoshita | BSD | |
You can download RPMs for RedHat / CentOS 4.x and 5.x for x86_64, binaries, sources and patches there
New patches, new builds
We made new patches, improved previous and want to announce new builds for 5.0.62, 5.0.67 and 5.1.26 versions. One of biggest changes we separated releases of 5.0 into two branches. First, just “-percona” release is more stable and contains only stable and proven on many installation patches. Second is “-percona-highperf” release, which contains experimental patches [...]
Percona builds with patches
As there were many requests for Debian binary packages in our announcement of Percona builds with custom patchsets, we decided to play with it and built .deb, which you can find there: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/ You can also add the following repositories into your sources.list: deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.0/ binary-amd64/ deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.0/ source/ deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.1/ binary-amd64/ deb http://mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/debian/5.1/ source/ [...]

