May 25, 2013

Percona Server and XtraBackup Weekly News, April 18th

Last week wasn’t so active in terms of new development, because many of us were at the MySQL conference, of course. However, we did push out the XtraBackup 1.6 release, and began work on backporting some features from MySQL 5.6 to 5.1 for a certain large customer. Several of the features we’ve added in 5.0 [...]

Percona Server 5.1.56-12.7

Percona Server version 5.1.56-12.7 is now available for download. It is based on MySQL 5.1.56 and is the current stable release in the 5.1 series.

Data Corruption, DRBD and story of bug

Working with customer, I faced pretty nasty bug, which is actually not rare situation , but in this particular there are some lessons I would like to share. The case is pretty much described in bug 55981, or in pastebin. Everything below is related to InnoDB-plugin/XtraDB, but not to regular InnoDB ( i.e in MySQL [...]

Speaking on San Francisco Meetup 14-Dec : What’s new in XtraDB/InnoDB-plugin 5.1+

Erin and Mike, organizers of SF Meetup generously invited me to talk on coming SF Meetup on Dec-14 about new features in InnoDB in MySQL 5.1 and 5.5 and, what is pay attention to, when you upgrade from MySQL 5.0. Although I personally mostly in 5.1->5.5 upgrade area, Erin insured me that upgrade from MySQL [...]

The story of one MySQL Upgrade

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

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 [...]

mysql_upgrade and Innodb Tables

Upgrading from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.1 or Percona Server 5.1 you may run into issues with mysql_upgrade – it will identify some tables to be upgraded and will attempt to run REPAIR TABLE for them. This will fail with “The storage engine for the table doesn’t support repair” error message. This seems to confuse [...]

Percona Server 5.0.90-build21

Dear Community, Percona Server 5.0.90, release 21 is available for use. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.90 Fixed bugs: Fixed Bug #539190 Percona-XtraDB package doesn’t allow libmysqlclient15off Fixed Bug #479106 mysql-5.0.87 + patches-5.0.86 compile fail in ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) Fixed tests mysql, mysql_upgrade, ssl* See [...]

Rebuilding MySQL with same options

Every so often I am working on the system with custom compiled MySQL. How to upgrade to the new MySQL Options while preserving as much of original compilation options as possible if original build scripts are not available ? MySQL distribution has a great script called mysqlbug which was supposed to be used for bug [...]

Introducing percona-patches for 5.1

Our patches for 5.0 have attracted significant interest.  You can read about SecondLife’s experience here, as well as what Flickr had to say on their blog.  The main improvements come in both performance gains and improvements to diagnostics (such as the improvements to the slow log output, and INDEX_STATISTICS). Despite having many requests to port [...]