RE: INESRT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY - rows affected incorrect?

2006-05-21 Thread Richard Dale
An update - it also occurs in 4.1.19

Bug filed here:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=19978

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INESRT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY - rows affected incorrect?

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Dale
Mysql 4.1.16 running on Fedora Core 4 (Linu) X86_64 with InnoDB tables

I have a table called  which has a (combined) primary key of assetid and
date plus several data fields (open, high, low, close - all doubles, and
voume - a bigint).  See the bottom of the email for the table definition.

INSERT INTO price (assetid,date,open,high,low,close,volume) VALUES 
(202690,'2006-05-18','334.25','334.25','334.25','334.25','1') ON DUPLICATE
KEY UPDATE
open='334.25',high='334.25',low='334.25',close='334.25',volume='1';

The first time around, the insert works fine:
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec);

The second time around, when there should be neither an insert nor an update
that affects any rows I get:
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.05 sec)

To check that the update wasn't in fact updating any rows, I tried:

UPDATE price SET
open='334.25',high='334.25',low='334.25',close='334.25',volume='1' WHERE
assetid=202690 AND date='2006-05-18';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

Rows matched: 1  Changed: 0  Warnings: 0

So, it appears that the rows affected returned by an INSERT ... ON
DUPLICATE KEY is incorrect.

Can anyone else confirm that this is the correct behaviour?

Thanks,
Richard.


-
Table definition:

CREATE TABLE `price` (
  `assetid` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
  `date` date NOT NULL default '-00-00',
  `open` double default NULL,
  `high` double default NULL,
  `low` double default NULL,
  `close` double default NULL,
  `volume` bigint(20) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`assetid`,`date`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;


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RE: INESRT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY - rows affected incorrect?

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Dale
 Most likely, MySQL has done a 'DELETE' followed by an 'INSERT' - i.e. two
rows.

According to:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/insert-on-duplicate.html
The rows-affected value is 1 if the row is inserted as a new record and 2 if
an existing record is updated. 

But what happens if the row is neither inserted nor updated?  Right now it
appears to returns '2'.  I think it should return '0'.

Cheers,
Richard.

-Original Message-
From: Richard Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 19 May 2006 11:23 a.m.
To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: INESRT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY - rows affected incorrect?


Mysql 4.1.16 running on Fedora Core 4 (Linu) X86_64 with InnoDB tables

I have a table called  which has a (combined) primary key of assetid and
date plus several data fields (open, high, low, close - all doubles, and
voume - a bigint).  See the bottom of the email for the table definition.

INSERT INTO price (assetid,date,open,high,low,close,volume) VALUES 
(202690,'2006-05-18','334.25','334.25','334.25','334.25','1') ON DUPLICATE
KEY UPDATE
open='334.25',high='334.25',low='334.25',close='334.25',volume='1';

The first time around, the insert works fine:
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec);

The second time around, when there should be neither an insert nor an update
that affects any rows I get:
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.05 sec)

To check that the update wasn't in fact updating any rows, I tried:

UPDATE price SET
open='334.25',high='334.25',low='334.25',close='334.25',volume='1' WHERE
assetid=202690 AND date='2006-05-18';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

Rows matched: 1  Changed: 0  Warnings: 0

So, it appears that the rows affected returned by an INSERT ... ON
DUPLICATE KEY is incorrect.

Can anyone else confirm that this is the correct behaviour?

Thanks,
Richard.


-
Table definition:

CREATE TABLE `price` (
  `assetid` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
  `date` date NOT NULL default '-00-00',
  `open` double default NULL,
  `high` double default NULL,
  `low` double default NULL,
  `close` double default NULL,
  `volume` bigint(20) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`assetid`,`date`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;


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RE: INESRT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY - rows affected incorrect?

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Dale
Thanks Quentin...

Further to this, I tried changing the types of the fields from DOUBLE to:
DECIMAL(10,2) and also VARCHAR(20) to avoid any issues with precision

The query still returns back 
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.05 sec)
when the fields are DECIMAL or VARCHAR too.

Might be time to file a bug report.

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-Original Message-
From: Quentin Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 19 May 2006 12:41 PM
To: Richard Dale; mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: RE: INESRT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY - rows affected incorrect?

Its not  a problem with precision is it - 332.25 looks OK to you and me, but
who knows what it looks like to the CPU? Maybe it sees one of the doubles as
slightly different and updates?

-Original Message-
From: Richard Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 19 May 2006 11:48 a.m.
To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: RE: INESRT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY - rows affected incorrect?


 Most likely, MySQL has done a 'DELETE' followed by an 'INSERT' - i.e. two
rows.

According to:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/insert-on-duplicate.html
The rows-affected value is 1 if the row is inserted as a new record and 2 if
an existing record is updated. 

But what happens if the row is neither inserted nor updated?  Right now it
appears to returns '2'.  I think it should return '0'.

Cheers,
Richard.

-Original Message-
From: Richard Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 19 May 2006 11:23 a.m.
To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: INESRT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY - rows affected incorrect?


Mysql 4.1.16 running on Fedora Core 4 (Linu) X86_64 with InnoDB tables

I have a table called  which has a (combined) primary key of assetid and
date plus several data fields (open, high, low, close - all doubles, and
voume - a bigint).  See the bottom of the email for the table definition.

INSERT INTO price (assetid,date,open,high,low,close,volume) VALUES 
(202690,'2006-05-18','334.25','334.25','334.25','334.25','1') ON DUPLICATE
KEY UPDATE
open='334.25',high='334.25',low='334.25',close='334.25',volume='1';

The first time around, the insert works fine:
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec);

The second time around, when there should be neither an insert nor an update
that affects any rows I get:
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.05 sec)

To check that the update wasn't in fact updating any rows, I tried:

UPDATE price SET
open='334.25',high='334.25',low='334.25',close='334.25',volume='1' WHERE
assetid=202690 AND date='2006-05-18';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

Rows matched: 1  Changed: 0  Warnings: 0

So, it appears that the rows affected returned by an INSERT ... ON
DUPLICATE KEY is incorrect.

Can anyone else confirm that this is the correct behaviour?

Thanks,
Richard.


-
Table definition:

CREATE TABLE `price` (
  `assetid` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
  `date` date NOT NULL default '-00-00',
  `open` double default NULL,
  `high` double default NULL,
  `low` double default NULL,
  `close` double default NULL,
  `volume` bigint(20) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`assetid`,`date`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;



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RE: Linux Yum DELETED mysql 4! Can I install mysql 5 and be on my way?

2005-11-07 Thread Richard Dale
MySql v3.23 is part of the Fedore Core 3 distribution.   MySQL v4.1 only
became standard in Fedora Core 4.

I suspect it's one of the non-Fedora repositories you're using.  Check your
logs and also check /etc/yum.repos.d

grep enabled /etc/yum/repos.d/*

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Hi;
On FC3, for some silly reason, Yum deleted my mysql 4.1x production server!
I do have my data. Now that I am in this hole, maybe I should go to mysql 5.
Can I install mysql 5, and it will migrate/work with my existing data?

Thanks,
-nat


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RE: default table type = innodb is stable??

2005-10-16 Thread Richard Dale
 this is my error log file.

 InnoDB: Error: log file ./ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 5242880 bytes
 InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0  268435456 bytes!

Your problem here is that you must have started MySQL when you had a 5MB
transaction log file specified, but you then put a new config file online
with a different log file size (256MB), InnoDB complains and dies.

You need to delete your old transaction log files (ib_logfile0) then start
MySQL and all should be fine.

Note: You should only delete your log files when you are absolutely sure
MySQL has shut down OK.

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RE: MySQL 4.1 on 64bit Fedora Core 3

2005-09-22 Thread Richard Dale
 The OS installed is the 64bit version of FC3. 

 I have upgraded MySQL from 3.23 to 4.1 and I have installed the shared
 library. (MySQL-shared-4.1.14-0.glibc23.x86_64.rpm)

 The problem is that PHP complains that it cannot find
 'libmysqlclient.so.10'.

I think you need the shared-compat libraries - it appears that they are no
provided on mysql.com

As an alternative, consider using Fedora Core 4 which has Mysql 4.1 in there
natively.

The following might also be helpful (not all info in there is
Opteron-specific):
http://hashmysql.org/index.php?title=Opteron_HOWTO

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RE: MySQL 4.1 on 64bit Fedora Core 3

2005-09-22 Thread Richard Dale
 The following might also be helpful (not all info in there is
 Opteron-specific):
 http://hashmysql.org/index.php?title=Opteron_HOWTO

Argh - should have read my own entry on that wiki page.

If you use PHP v4.3 (as installed with FC3) then it requires the MySQL v3.23
interface libraries (aka libmysqlclient.so.10). By removing the
pre-installed MySQL it will remove these libraries. As of 31 May 2005 For
some reason these were not compiled into the MySQL 4.1.12 shared library
RPMs as downloaded from the MySQL site. However, they are available from any
Fedora mirror in the FC4 testing area. You will need to install a package
called mysqlclient10-3.23.58-6.x86_64.rpm - I found such a package at my
local mirror here:
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/fedora/test/3.92/x86_64/os/Fedora/
RPMS/mysqlclient10-3.23.58-6.x86_64.rpm

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RE: Continued x86_64 install problems

2005-07-27 Thread Richard Dale
Hi Anne,

 I managed to install
 MySQL-client-4.0.25-0.ia64.rpm
 MySQL-server-4.0.25-0.ia64.rpm
 MySQL-devel-4.0.25-0.ia64.rpm
 ...

x86_64 != ia64

You have installed the wrong architecture executables.  Try downloading the
x86_64 versions instead.

Also have a read of our Opteron (x86_64) HOWTO:
http://hashmysql.org/index.php?title=Opteron_HOWTO


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RE: Mysqld chewing up cpu in the background.

2005-07-25 Thread Richard Dale
 I am fairly sure that there aren't any queries being run, but while in
 the background, my mysqld process chews up exactly 50% of my cpu. It
 runs queries nicely and has excellent response times for most any
 query I throw at it, but its causing issues for other apps.

Try using mytop to see if there are queries going on.

It's like the unix top command.
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/

Also try:
SHOW PROCESSLIST;

If you use InnoDB:
show innodb status;

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RE: AMD64 Linux MySQL Error 1041 Out of Memory

2005-06-16 Thread Richard Dale
   So we have recently started stress testing Mysql on an Opteron dual
CPU
 machine running Ubuntu Hoary.  We are using the 64-bit GCC
 4.0.24-standard binary from mysql.  The stress test that I'm currently
 running on it involves inserting a large database (from a mysqldump)
 ...

Which linux kernel are you running?

Why not consider MySQL 4.1? It's now a stable production release.

Also, consider visiting:
http://hashmysql.org/index.php?title=Opteron_HOWTO
We would welcome a section on there about Ubuntu and x86-64.

Also, perhaps this bug is related:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=10829

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RE: Mysqldump

2005-06-01 Thread Richard Dale
 I took a dump of (pretty chunk) database, the output is close to 45G.
I
 am trying to reload this dump file onto a development  server but it's
 taking long time to load the database. Is their a faster way to load
the
 data in? I am using plain and simple  mysql  dump.sql syntax on a Mysql
 0.24 server.

Make sure you use the -e (extended insert) option on your mysqldump - this
speeds things up tremendously.  Also, make sure you use -q on your
mysqldump so it doesn't buffer the results in RAM during the dump.

I did a ~10GB dump and it took around 2 hours to load on an Opteron 250, 4GB
RAM, 8x15K RPM RAID 10 drive system.

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RE: email notification

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Dale
If you use MyISAM tables you could always do:

SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE 'tablename'

Then look at the Update_time column.

If that has changed since last time then something has changed.  Then
implement a php/perl/whatever script around it to email you.

Note:  On my InnoDB tables this time seems to be quite often NULL, so I
guess it's not implemented in InnoDB.

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Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2005 23:59
To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: email notification

I'm looking for a feature in mysql where it will email me if ther are
any changes in a particular database or table.



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RE: MySQL not using optimum disk throughput.

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Dale
I've added a fair bit of information on the Opteron HOWTO Wiki at:
http://hashmysql.org/index.php?title=Opteron_HOWTO
for using Fedora Core 3 with X86-64.

In my performance testing, I was finding that with so much RAM, everything
was coming from RAM anyway.  RAID10 seemed to be most stable, and writeback
caching increased the speed by about 15% although I don't think I was really
able to max out the IO anyway.

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RE: Opteron HOWTO - #mysql Freenode

2005-05-17 Thread Richard Dale
Over the last week I added in lots of comments pasted in from various
places.  I'd appreciate those running with Opteron and MySQL to have a close
look at the WIKI and make any amendments/suggestions.

http://hashmysql.org/index.php?title=Opteron_HOWTO

My Opteron server will be here shortly and I'll do some performance testing
on RAID5 (8 disks) versus RAID 10 (8 disks, 2 channels).  I'll also do some
performance tests with 128MB cache and 512MB cache on the SCSI card to let
you know if that makes a difference.

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Dual Opteron, linux kernels, 64 bit, mysql 4.1, InnoDB

2005-05-08 Thread Richard Dale
A new server is about to arrive here and will have have 8x15K RPM spindles,
dual Opteron processors and 4GB of RAM, and will have around 100GB of
database (primarily stock market prices) - the SCSI controller will also
have battery-backed RAM too.  InnoDB will be used exclusively.

I've searched the list and seen varying reports of which Linux kernels work
best etc.

I'd be intersted to know the following:
a) Which 64 bit Linux distributions are good for the task?
b) Which 64 bit Linux distributions are bad for the task?
c) Any comments on kernels, particularly with regard to 64 bit support and
schedulers?  Any problems with the latest kernels (2.6.11  2.6.12-rcX)?
d) Any recommendations for RAID volume setup
e) Any MySQL optimisations for multiple spindles, onboard caching, stripe
sizes, RAID5 vs RAID10.
f) Any MySQL reliability settings to take into account the battery-backed
RAM on the RAID controller?

I'm happy to collate the responses into a summary too.

I'm aware of the following discussions which describes a reasonably grunty
Dual AMD system with a similar configuration to mine:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_ordered_April_2005
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_order_May_2004

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RAID, MySQL and SATA - benchmarks

2005-03-08 Thread Richard Dale
Tweakers.net has completed a comparison of 9 serial ATA RAID 0/1/5/10
controllers at:
http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557

There is a specific section on MySQL performance in the section:
http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/25

Just thought these articles would be of interest to some (it's interesting
to see the difference between single drive operations and multiple drive
operations - up to 12 drives, with the different RAID levels).

Here's my rough speed comparison based upon eyeballing the graphs.  Some
controllers were better than others so this represents a rough average of
the entire set of controllers:

Single drive -  1.0
RAID 1 - 2 disks - 1.4
RAID5 - 3 disks -  1.7
RAID5 - 4 disks -  2.0
RAID10 - 4 disks - 2.0
RAID5 - 6 disks - 2.3
RAID5 - 8 disks -  2.4
RAID5 - 10 disks - 2.9
RAID5 - 12 disks - 3.1

The article also highlighted the difference between the reliable
write-through mode and the write-back mode.  In write-through mode,
performance is degraded by approximately 50%.  Clearly if you want
reliability, a controller with a battery backup is highly recommended.

On the issue of SCSI version SATA performance, it would appear that SCSI
still performas somewhat better (about 20% more transactions but the test
was comparing 15K RPM SCSI drives to 10K RPM SATA drives) but the reduced
cost of SATA drives allows you to add more drives to achieve the same
performance levels at lesser cost.  With Serial ATA II drives around the
corner (with Native Command Queueing) then I think we'll find SATA will take
a much bigger lead in database performance.

Really nice work from tweakers.net - would have been interesting to see the
Linux performance too though.

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Mysql 4.1.1, InnoDB - Slow TRUNCATE operations with Multiple Tablespaces

2004-05-20 Thread Richard Dale
Hi everybody,
 
I'm experiencing that the command TRUNCATE TABLE  with InnoDB takes an
extraordinary amount of time on large ( 400MB) tables - ie about 3-4
minutes.  In comparison, performing a DROP TABLE  then recreating it
takes about 2 seconds.  When the truncate operation is performed from a PERL
script with DBI, this usually results in a lost connection to databse
error which is rather frustrating.
 
I am using the new multiple tablespaces feature since during my development
I'll be truncating the tables a lot (perhaps this was a bad move?)
 
Has anyone else experienced such slow TRUNCATE operations?
 
Here's a summary of my environment:
Platform: Mysql 4.1.1-aplha, InnoDB 
Noteable parameters:  innodb_file_per_table, 160MB innodb buffer pool
Hardware: Win XP, 3Ghz P4 (HT), 1GB RAM, multiple 7200RPM drives
Database location:  On its own database on its own hard drive.
Swapping:  WinXP reporting commit charge  800MB
 
Note:  I'll be moving to a Linux-based development server soon and will be
able to tell whether the above is specific to Windows or Linux.
 
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