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[Maria-discuss] askmonty.org moving to a new server this Thursday (25 Feb)
by Daniel Bartholomew 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

All, I'm sending this to both Maria Developers and Maria Discuss to make sure it gets to everyone, sorry for any duplicates. Just a heads up for everyone: I will be moving the askmonty.org website from its current home to a new server this Thursday, 25 Feb. If all goes according to plan, the website will remain up during the move but will be read-only during the actual switch. askmonty.org is the only domain/website that will be impacted by this move, websites on any other domain (such as buildbot.askmonty.org) are not part of this move and will continue to function normally. I will send a notice out on Thursday when I start the process, and a final one once the move is complete and I've tested that things are working properly. Thanks! -- Daniel Bartholomew Monty Program - http://askmonty.org

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[Maria-discuss] MariaDB 5.1.42 has been released
by Colin Charles 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Dear MariaDB users, MariaDB 5.1.42, a new branch of the MySQL database which includes all major open source storage engines, myriad bug fixes, and many community patches, has been released. We are very proud to have made our first final release, and we encourage you to test it out and use it on your systems. For an overview of what's new in MariaDB 5.1.42, please see: http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Manual:MariaDB_5.1.42_Release_Notes For information on installing MariaDB 5.1.42 on new servers or upgrading to MariaDB 5.1.42 from previous releases, please see: http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Manual:Installation MariaDB is available in source and binary form for a variety of platforms and is available from the download pages at: http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB:Download:MariaDB_5.1.42 It is also our pleasure to announce that we have a partnership with Webyog to offer their tools for trial and at a discounted rate if purchased within 30 days. Find out more at: http://askmonty.org/downloads/links/webyog http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB:Download#Software_Partner_Downlo… We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, patches, and participation on our mailing list. Find out more at: http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB#How_can_I_participate_in_the_dev… Enjoy! -- Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi

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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] virtual columns
by Federico Razzoli 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

I've read that MariaDB 5.2 will support virtual columns and I've read the virtual columns' specifications: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_virtual_columns_ref_manual I think there is a problem in that document. In CREATE TABLE and in ALTER TABLE commands you can create a virtual column. The syntax allows to specify that the column is STORED, if you wish. But it does not allow to specify that it's NOT STORED. This causes a little problem: one can not switch a STORED column to NOT STORED - one must to DROP and re-ADD the column. Also, I have a question: will virtual columns be able to use UDF's? Cheers, Federico

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[Maria-discuss] FYI: askmonty.org/buildbot is moving to buildbot.askmonty.org/buildbot
by Daniel Bartholomew 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

All, This is an FYI for everyone that uses our buildbot web interface: Due to an upcoming server move I am in the process of moving our buildbot web interface from http://askmonty.org/buildbot to http://buildbot.askmonty.org/buildbot Both of the above currently work (and point at the same data), but as of Friday 5 Feb 2010 at approx 09:00 US Eastern time, http://askmonty.org/buildbot will turn into a redirect. The redirect will handle all of your old bookmarks (i.e. they should still work), but I thought I should at least let everyone know so that you aren't surprised by the move. I've already updated all of the links I could find on the askmonty.org wiki. And if you are wondering why I kept the /buildbot subdirectory in place on the new subdomain, well, it was easier and safer to keep it in place, so I did. If you connect directly to http://buildbot.askmonty.org you will automatically be redirected to the /buildbot subdir. Thanks! -- Daniel Bartholomew Monty Program - http://askmonty.org

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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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[Maria-discuss] MariaDB Twitter account
by Colin Charles 21 Dec '09

21 Dec '09

Hi! Does anyone know who runs the MariaDB twitter account? We'd like to get a hold of the login details, so that we can become more relevant on Twitter - i.e. start following people, answering questions, etc. If I don't get a response within 48 hours of this message, I'll contact Twitter to see if we can maybe get the account by them reassigning it to us. Cheers, -c -- Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi

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[Maria-discuss] Binding to network addresses
by Viljo Hakala 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

I am not sure whether this has been discussed. MySQL either binds to all network interfaces/addresses or to only single specified network address. Wouldn't this limitation be nice to have fixed in MariaDB, say I want to bind to 127.0.0.1 and a VIP network address, maybe management network address, but not to all network addresses on a server?

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[Maria-discuss] Default Database Engine
by Richard Dunn 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

I have compiled and installed mariadb-5.1.39 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 and installed a 64-bit binary on CentOS 5. In both cases, MyISAM is still the default database engine. I would have expected it to be Maria. Did I miss something? Thanks, Richard

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[Maria-discuss] [Kristian Nielsen] [Maria-developers] FOSDEM 2010
by Kristian Nielsen 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

It occured to me that this might be better to send to -discuss to get a wider audience. Sorry if you receive this twice. - Kristian.

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