Percona Server version 5.1.73-14.12

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.73-14.12 on July 31st, 2014 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.73, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.73-14.12 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is …

Monitoring flow control in a Galera cluster is very important. If you do not, you will not understand why writes may sometimes be stalled. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 provides 2 status variables for such monitoring: wsrep_flow_control_paused and wsrep_flow_control_paused_ns. Which one should you use?

What is flow control?

Flow control does not exist with regular MySQL replication, but only with Galera replication. It is simply the mechanism nodes are using when they are not able to keep up with the write load: to keep replication synchronous, the node that is starting to lag instructs the other nodes that writes should be paused for some time so it does not get too far behind.

If you are not familiar with this notion, you should read this …

Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on July 21st 2014. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. We’re also happy to announce that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS users can now download, install, and upgrade Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 from Percona’s software repositories.

Based on Percona Server …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Toolkit 2.2.9 on July 10, 2014 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.2 series.

Bugs Fixed:

• Fixed bug 1335960: pt-query-digest could not parse the binlogs from …

We are using Percona Server + TokuDB engine extensively in Percona Cloud Tools and getting real usage operational experience with this engine. So I want to share some findings we came across, in hope it may help someone in their work with TokuDB.

So, one problem I faced is that SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES is quite slow when I have thousands tables in TokuDB. How slow? For example…

select * from information_schema.tables limit 1000;
...
1000 rows in set (18 min 31.93 sec)

This is very similar to what InnoDB faced a couple years back. InnoDB solved it by adding variable …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.38-35.2 on July 2, 2014 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.38, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.38-35.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the  …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.19-67.0 on July 1, 2014. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.19, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.19-67.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.3 on June 12th 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backup. The new 2.2.3 …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.17-66.0 on June 11, 2014. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.17, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.17-66.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free, all the details of …

We recently open-sourced our percona-agent and if you check out the source code, you’ll find that it is written in the Go programming language (aka Golang). For those not up to speed, the percona-agent is a real-time client-side agent for Percona Cloud Tools.

Our requirements are quite demanding for our agents. This one is software that works on a real production server, so it must be fast, reliable, lightweight and easy to distribute. Surprisingly enough, binaries compiled by Go fit these characteristics.

There are of course alternatives that we considered. On the scripting side: Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby et al. These are not necessarily fast, and the distribution is also interesting. We have enough experience with …