master.info and my.cnf updates

2001-08-23 Thread Robinson, Mike
I just set up a master/slave replication scheme and all is well, but through the procedure did get bit on the tail. After the setup, and after the master and slave mysql servers had been started, I got some error messages that pointed to a type in the slave's my.cnf file. I shut the slave down,

RE: A couple of questions about connections

2001-08-22 Thread Robinson, Mike
Grigory Bakunov wrote: Hello! TW Hi all, TW I'm running MySQL Ver 3.23.32 for -freebsd4.2 on i386, With PHP4 TW compiled statically into Apache 1.3.17. All connections to the database TW are non-persistent connections. It's a pretty busy server, hitting TW about 60 queries

RE: synchronisation (replication)

2001-08-16 Thread Robinson, Mike
It seems certainly possible to automate 2 mysql servers in circular replication, each being master/slave to the other, provided your code is written in such a way to circumvent the auto_increment issue. Generating unique ids on a machine basis and using those values instead of an autoincrement

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Robinson, Mike
I suppose there will always be that facet out there that think spending $46zillion dollars on Oracle is ok because saying 'we use Oracle' is just plain sexy and the option includes, you know, a free t-shirt and hat. Im sure there are specific valid reasons for not using MySQL. None of them were

RE: MySql and PHP

2001-08-08 Thread Robinson, Mike
I've had no problems at all with this setup. Locate libmysqlclient.so.10 and make sure the dir its in is in /etc/ld.so.conf, and run ldconfig. From a source install, its in /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql. Mike Robinson IT / Developer - Toronto Star TV Phone: 416.945.8786 Fax: 416.869.4566