Today on serverfault I read about XtraDB. I read that it was a fork of innoDB and was woundering how big are the differences? Would I notice the change or do you think its just wasted time if I would try it out? ...
I am looking for good articles on how to install and setup Percona's patched server with XtraDB and master/slave replication setup on Centos 5.2 64 bit. I believe they can be downloaded at http://www.percona.com/mysql/5.1.34-5/RPM/rhel5/? and is there any good recipes for setting up HA and replication? Thanks! ...
question comes up from some behavior i'm seeing. we're using mysql 5.1.36, xtradb release 6 on an 8 core box. when dropping a database with a lot of tables, mysql takes a long time to check permissions for each table before dropping them. i understand this to be normal behavior, at least with recent versions of mysql. however, when d...