MySQL replication server

2010-11-22 Thread Machiel Richards
Hi All sorry to bother everyone again. but now I have a question from a client which I am sure about my answer, however need to confirm. When setting up a master/slave replication set. As I understand it, the slave server can't accept any writes, however it will be able to

Re: MySQL replication server

2010-11-22 Thread John Daisley
You are correct, in a master slave setup the slave does not accept writes. John On 22 November 2010 11:06, Machiel Richards machi...@rdc.co.za wrote: Hi All sorry to bother everyone again. but now I have a question from a client which I am sure about my answer, however need to

Re: MySQL replication server

2010-11-22 Thread a . smith
Hi, I think you are wrong, slaves will always accept writes unless you set readonly in the mysql config. Due to this, and if you dont specifically set readonly on the slave you have to be very careful in order to maintain data integrity on the slave and also not to break repliacton.

Re: MySQL replication server

2010-11-22 Thread Machiel Richards
. -Original Message- From: a.sm...@ukgrid.net To: John Daisley daisleyj...@googlemail.com Cc: Machiel Richards machi...@rdc.co.za, mysql mailing list mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: MySQL replication server Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:03:38 + Hi, I think you are wrong, slaves will always

Re: MySQL replication server

2010-11-22 Thread John Daisley
The replicated database should not be accepting writes, if it is then you haven't set it up correctly On 22 November 2010 13:03, a.sm...@ukgrid.net wrote: Hi, I think you are wrong, slaves will always accept writes unless you set readonly in the mysql config. Due to this, and if you dont

Re: MySQL replication server

2010-11-22 Thread Tyler Poland
Additionally, if a user has the SUPER privilege (eg. all privileges on *.*) they can write to a database running in read-only mode. Yet another reason to never allow this privilege for general purpose users. Tyler On 11/22/10 8:08 AM, John Daisley wrote: The replicated database should not

Re: MySQL replication server

2010-11-22 Thread a . smith
Hi, so yes you can do that, but then I guess you cannot set the server hosting database A as readonly (from memory this can only be set server wide, but worht checking it out). Which might leave you a few options to ensure data integrity, for example simply by user security either by

Re: MySQL replication server

2010-11-22 Thread Johan De Meersman
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:08 PM, John Daisley daisleyj...@googlemail.comwrote: The replicated database should not be accepting writes, if it is then you haven't set it up correctly *shrug* I never bother. The slave is way too useful to fuck around with optimisations and whatnot, reporting