how about
--gtid_auto_create_engine_list=
default value = innodb,tokudb
(and the stored proc)
/Jonas
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Kristian Nielsen <kniel...@knielsen-hq.org>
wrote:
> Will Fong <will.f...@mariadb.com> writes:
>
> > What about a configuration setting in my.cnf that will do the above
> magically?
> >
> > I would prefer not making direct changes to the mysql database.
>
> I agree that this is not ideal.
>
> But do you have a suggestion for how the semantics of such an option should
> be? Too much magic is not good either.
>
> For example, if the user does a blackhole engine transaction, do we really
> want a blackhole mysql.gtid_slave_pos? Or archive engine, which does not
> support deletes?
>
> One thing that could be done is to supply a standard stored procedure to
> add
> an engine table, to avoid direct changes to the mysql database:
>
> mysql.gtid_pos_add_engine("MyRocks");
>
> This would create the table, and could also check eg. that a table does not
> already exist etc. This seems better.
>
> But even better woulf be if most users did not have to do anything to get
> the improved performance. Maybe we could just have a hardcoded list of
> engines that are suitable for mysql.gtid_slave_pos (eg. innodb, tokudb,
> myrocks). And replication will automatically create a suitable
> mysql.gtid_slave_pos_XXX if it sees a transaction in one of those engines,
> unless --skip-gtid-auto-create-pos-table is set. For more
> exotic/experimental engine, the user can manually call
> mysql.gtid_pos_add_engine() if desired.
>
> So to summarise
>
> - Auto create mysql.gtid_slave_pos_{innodb,tokudb,myrocks} if a
> transaction
> is seen in one of those engines
>
> - A --skip-gtid-auto-create-pos-table to disable this auto behaviour
>
> - A stored procedure mysql.gtid_pos_add_engine() to facilitate manually
> adding an engine table.
>
> What do you think, does this sound ok? Suggestions for better ways?
>
> And thanks for commenting, this helped me rethink this part of the design
> which I was not very happy with.
>
> - Kristian.
>
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