Re: [Maria-developers] request for feedback on live schema changes patch

2011-03-18 Thread Kristian Nielsen
Zardosht Kasheff writes: > I am hoping to resurrect this discussion. Has there been any > discussion on implementing the feature of allowing handlers to do fast > schema changes in MariaDB (on any version)? > > I have put this patch on MySQL 5.1, and I think I have it working. I > started looking

Re: [Maria-developers] request for feedback on live schema changes patch

2011-03-08 Thread Zardosht Kasheff
Hello all, I am hoping to resurrect this discussion. Has there been any discussion on implementing the feature of allowing handlers to do fast schema changes in MariaDB (on any version)? I have put this patch on MySQL 5.1, and I think I have it working. I started looking at MariaDB 5.2, but I do

Re: [Maria-developers] request for feedback on live schema changes patch

2010-11-18 Thread Zardosht Kasheff
Hello, I am wondering if we can resurrect this discussion. In summary, I have a patch that I think I can apply to 5.1, although I realize it is not the ideal solution. It is a solution that I could code that minimizes the risk of introducing a regression for storage engines that do not use this.

Re: [Maria-developers] request for feedback on live schema changes patch

2010-10-01 Thread Zardosht Kasheff
I did it this way for two reasons: - I did not want to try to port partitioning's alter table changes. That was getting into a realm where I could easily mess up - I was concerned with implementing the backwards-compatible emulation of the old API. I figured i would do it this way for 5.1, and th

Re: [Maria-developers] request for feedback on live schema changes patch

2010-10-01 Thread Kristian Nielsen
Zardosht Kasheff writes: > That being said, I would love to hear feedback on this patch, and > would also like to understand what (if anything) can be done to get > this into MariaDB 5.1. I realize that may not be possible, but if it > is, I would like to try. I didn't look at the patch yet. How