Percona Server’s “crash-resistant replication” feature is useful in versions 5.1 through 5.5. However, in Percona Server 5.6 it’s replaced with Oracle MySQL 5.6′s “crash safe replication” feature, which has it’s own implementation (you can read more about it here).

A MySQL slave normally stores its position in files master.info and relay-log.info which are updated by slave IO_THREAD & slave SQL_THREAD respectively. The file master.info contains connection info & replication coordinates showing how many events were fetched from the master binary log. The relay-log.info, on the other hand, represents info showing the positions where the slave applied those events. You can read more about slave status logs …

Percona Server version 5.1.70-14.8

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.70-14.8 on July 3nd, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.70, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.70-14.8 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is …

Percona Server for MySQL version 5.6.12-60.4

Percona is glad to announce the second Release Candidate release of Percona Server 5.6.12-60.4 on June 27th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on the recently released MySQL 5.6.12, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.12-60.4 is the second RC release in the Percona …

One very interesting feature, “Compact Backup,” is introduced in Percona XtraBackup 2.1. You can run “compact backups” with the  –compact option, which is very useful for those who have limited disk space to keep the database backup. Now let’s first understand how it works. When we are using –compact option with Innobackupex, it will omit the secondary index pages. This will make the backups more compact and this way they will take less space on disk but the downside of this is, the backup prepare process will take longer time because those secondary index pages will be recreated while preparing the backup. Here, we need to consider couple of things before implement …

Percona Server for MySQL version 5.1.69-14.7

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 on June 10, 2013. A drop in replacement for MySQL, downloads are available  here and from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.1.69, this release will include all the bug fixes in it. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the …

Percona Server for MySQL version 5.6.11-60.3

Percona is glad to announce the first Release Candidate release of Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 on June 3rd, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.6.11, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 is the first RC release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of …

If you are using Percona Replication Manager (PRM) with RHEL/CentOS prior to 6.4, upgrading your distribution to 6.4 may break your cluster. In this post I will explain you how to fix your cluster in case it breaks after a distribution upgrade that implies an update of pacemaker from 1.1.7 to 1.18. You can also follow the official documentation here.

The version of Pacemaker (always considered as Technology Preview by RedHat) provided with 6.4 is 1.1.8-x which is not 100% compatible with 1.1.7-x see this report.

So if you want to upgrade, you cannot apply any rolling upgrade process. So like for Pacemaker 0.6.x to 1.0.x, you need again to update all nodes as once. As notified in …

Percona Server for MySQL version 5.5.31-30.3

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.31-30.3 on May 24, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.31, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.31-30.3 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.3 for MySQL on May 22, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.

This release fixes a high priority bug. It’s advised to upgrade your latest 2.1 version to 2.1.3 if you’re using the Percona XtraBackup with Percona XtraDB Cluster. This release is the latest stable …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.2 for MySQL on May 18, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.

This release fixes number of high-priority bugs since version 2.1 became GA. It’s advised to upgrade your latest 2.1 version to 2.1.2. This release is the latest stable release in the 2.1 series.

Bugs Fixed:

• Using Perl’s DBD::MySQL package for server communication instead of spawning the MySQL command line client …