On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:38:33AM -0700, Brian Aker wrote: >> forgot to add something. In the MySQL C/S protocol we are missing a >> check-sum to check whether the data is correct. I am aware that TCP >> has own check-summing but it protects only from problems during the >> network transmission, not memory problems. As this is not often the >> case it should be pluggable. As the server cannot know the CRC when >> starting to send the data to the client, it should be sent as last > > I like the idea of optionally sending this. We know this is needed in > replication and in general its not a bad idea to allow for this > optionally.
In the client handshake section I briefly mention the ability to enable checksums. This may also be a pluggable feature, and will be enabled much like auth is. The server reports which types are supported (CR32, MD5, ...) and the client sends it's preferred checksum encoding. -Eric _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
