+1 It could stay in the source tree but be disabled from a default build (by flipping the setting in plugin.ini)
henrik On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, pcrews <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/18/2012 07:13 AM, David Shrewsbury wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Feb 17, 2012, at 8:41 PM, Daniel Nichter wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>> The big challenge in that list is slave which currently reads a config >>> file. It should be possible to start Drizzle with slave enabled, but no >>> config, and then config and connect to the master dynamically. After all, >>> MySQL can dynamically re-connect to or change the master. I'm not sure if >>> the slave code is amenable to this requirement, but it must be made amenable >>> else replication will suffer a serious blow to usability. >> >> >> So the idea was that plugins would only be enabled based >> on what the user needed. I don't think we ever intended to >> match MySQL functionality straight out of the box. Leaner >> and meaner and only what you need and whatnot... >> >> That said, the slave plugin cannot be turned on by default >> since there are no mechanisms to dynamically add masters >> or alter how it works other than through the slave config file. >> There were plans to add more to it in the future to re-enable >> some of the dynamic config features. But obviously we are not >> quite there. >> >> filtered_replicator - Should not be enabled by default. No >> sense adding it unless you are replicating events AND >> want to filter them. >> >> transaction_log - Should not be enabled by default. This is >> the file-based transaction log (not used by the slave) and >> is rather buggy, IMO. I almost feel like we should remove it >> from the tree... > > > I'd be in favor of removing the transaction_log if nobody objects. I don't > think it's bad code, but we see significant gains from using the > innodb-based log / I'm not aware of anything that relies on this and suspect > if anything does, that it could be adapted to use the bad-ass innodb rpl log > : ) > > Plus it is nice to trim out code / tests that aren't used but cause > overhead. > > -Patrick >> >> >> -Dave >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- [email protected] +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
