Updating from 4 to 5

2010-06-28 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am about to move from FreeBSD 6 to FreeBSD 8. With that, the mysql server version will be changed from 4 to 5. I am assuming I can load all the users tables, and the mysql database (grant tables and all) to the new server, then run mysqlupdate, and everything that needs to be updated

Re: selecting data for computation

2010-06-28 Thread Baron Schwartz
Tim, What you have described is really a queue, although you are not seeing it from that angle. This is a very common pattern in this kind of usage. It's also tricky to make it correct (as you have discovered), and both performance and scalability are problems in most implementations. A general