This week we’ve been working on…

• The re-jigged build system, so we have a single patched baseline source tarball that’s then used for all the different builds, as well as being available for you to download and build yourself.
• Noarch distro rpm for all CentOS to more easily drop repo files into YUM.
• The repo/download mirror system, it’ll be ready to go from the next build (domain/paths will change slightly). Add your name to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ourdelta/+bug/285200 if you’d like to be a mirror.
• More documentation for existing (and new) patches. Currently WordPress mucks up the tabs when inside the docs pages, if you’re a WP guru who can fix this, please get in touch!
• Fixing up existing and updated patches. We really …

This week we've been working on...

• The re-jigged build system, so we have a single patched baseline source tarball that's then used for all the different builds, as well as being available for you to download and build yourself.
  
• Noarch distro rpm for all CentOS to more easily drop repo files into YUM.
  
• The repo/download mirror system, it'll be ready to go from the next build (domain/paths will change slightly). Add your name to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ourdelta/+bug/285200 if you'd like to be a mirror.
  
• More documentation for existing (and new) patches. Currently WordPress mucks up the tabs when inside the docs pages, if you're a WP guru who can fix this, please get in touch!
  
• Fixing up existing and updated patches. We really don't …

Big Cats by micalngelo

“Every startup CEO is at least thinking about the need to cut back right now” – Michael Arrington

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffet

I’ll give you one guess as to which man I’m listening to. So no, not every startup CEO is cutting back. Apple spent their time innovating during the last downturn and look where it got them. I’m thrilled to have just passed out big, healthy profit-sharing bonuses to all of our employees this week for the 5th consecutive year. We think and hope they’ll be even bigger next year.

There's been a number of different things that have happened this week, the least of which has been the sudden realization that I am yet another year closer to senility. But there's more and many more things more interesting to you than me getting more aged :)

MySQL 5.1.29

First off there's this small release of MySQL 5.1.29 RC. So what's the big deal? Well, after 29 releases, this is going to be the last RC release as my colleague Giuseppe Maxia has noted in his blog.

That's a pretty big deal, for you, for me, for everyone.

Now you may be wondering, how to follow the releases at MySQL. I suggest you use your trust RSS reader to subscribe to the Latest MySQL …

When I left MySQL, my main machine was my old black 32-bit macbook which had to be kept attached to power supply (you know how difficult that is to guarantee, with the mag power adapter!) because of the earlier cordial-in-the-night incident (insurance covered that but the replacement was MySQL's of course).
I wanted a new 64-bit macbook, but was holding out for the new chipset that would support 4GB. It arrived, but local stores couldn't get it yet whereas the Apple store had it in stock - caveat, only the stock version could be shipped fairly quickly. Fine for RAM I was sourcing 2x2GB sticks for it elsewhere already. The HD was a tad painful, going down from upgraded 120G in my old one to about 100G in the new stock version.

Now, for OurDelta testing foo I have a nice box in my office with lots of cores, RAM and diskspace. So when I'm home or at least online, that also works …

Now why would I do that, especially when my blog is syndicated through it?

Simple. I’m always trying to cut back on RSS and other “stuff.” Less is more. But don’t worry — I subscribed again. Only this time, I subscribed to my own filtered version of it! I built it [...]

I'm sitting here at OSBC. I was invited to speak on the "working at an open source company" panel.

Right now am listening to a talk about the story of the founding of BSD, and the invention/discovery of "strangers will send you patches", and the development of the contributor, captain, integrator system. And then a description of how to deal with a contributor community.

The previous talk was by Eric Allman about running a company and dealing with investors vs founders.

Before that was by someone from INGRES about "Myths of Open Source".

I missed BrianB's talk, because figuring out how to park here at UC Berkeley took too long.

Going in to this most recent gig, it was thought that it was going to be a heavy user of MySQL Proxy, which thus would involve a fair amount of custom Lua programming.

As the client and I talked and whiteboarded out the design, it evolved into being very complex. It was going to be a challenge, and had a lot of moving parts.

As big and expensive as it was becoming, it still was much simpler and cheaper than what *r*cl* had quoted, they wanted a mid seven digits, PER YEAR, in license fees, for their proposal.

Anyway, as this thing grew on the board, something started itching in my head, and I sat back, looked at it again, and said "we're recreating the binlogs and the replication threads".

The client was very familiar with replication in Oracle and in MS SQL, but not at all so for MySQL, especially it's robustness in the face of lag and link failure. E.G, just let them lag, and let the …

Pop quiz. Look at the picture below. Quick: can you tell me to which year and month partition P001 refers?


I couldn't say it without asking the database itself to revert the output of to_days:

select from_days(723180);
+-------------------+
| from_days(723180) |
+-------------------+
| 1980-01-01        | 
+-------------------+

Just to make the pain more clear, you do something like this, clean and neat, and you think you have done a good job.

CREATE TABLE t1 ( d DATE ) 
PARTITION by range (to_days(d))
(
  partition p001 VALUES LESS THAN (to_days('2001-01-01')) 
, partition p002 VALUES LESS THAN (to_days('2001-02-01')) 
, partition p003 VALUES LESS THAN …

I thought it would be fun to share this:



Hi Brian,

We are cleaning up the old Cupertino phone system. You have an extension 408.213.6576 on this system.
I also see Rosalynd Aker has 408.213.6657 and this forwards to your email address brian@mysql.com

Do you still need these numbers? Thank You!

Jason



Rosalynd is my dog.

When MySQL first started up with VOIP I got a second line because I was playing with call forwarding at the time. We had to list something in the dial system though, so I used her name.

I had wondered when someone would remember and purge this from the system. Startups have a certain sense of fun to them :)