January 2010 - discuss - lists.mariadb.org

[Maria-discuss] Why isn't SO_SNDTIMEO used?
by MARK CALLAGHAN 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

I describe how read/write is done for sockets in mysqld. http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=122655300932 Can someone explain the history of this code? -- Mark Callaghan mdcallag(a)gmail.com

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[Maria-discuss] Josh Berkus on community
by Kurt von Finck 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Nice set of points on bad community management raised by Josh Berkus. http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/370157/31a2534da9d465d3/ Do you disagree with any? Are there any things you would add? Do you think our projects suffer from any of these problems, and what constructive criticism do you have? Also, is there stuff you'd like to see the Maria community do? I think these points are a good jumping-off point to make sure we do things right. -- ./k kurt von finck http://www.mneptok.com public key: keyserver.ubuntu.com key id: 5229D26A fingerprint: 127A A484 ADBF A5AD E7FB 8CD2 8913 18F4 5229 D26A Music is the space between the notes. - Debussy

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[Maria-discuss] Replication and auto-increment
by Brian Evans 29 Jan '10

29 Jan '10

I was reading over the replication discussion on maria-developers I thought I'd share some thoughts that are not so technical as I do not understand the back end that well. Our system is currently a master-master WAN replication setup, each writing to a different DB with an offline process to do copies. Our databases extensively uses auto-increments on tables (more than necessary, but that's another story). Would future developments allow synchronous replication to occur on a single database when the WAN link has a single point of failure(SPoF)? How might an auto-increment system handle such a failure? This SPoF is our network link that can be a transient problem out of our control. Both sides may need to keep inserting data during this transient issue. This is usually not an issue 99% of the time, but it's better to prepare for downtime than trying to fix data errors in that 1%.

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