Hi :) The MariaDb itself not the connector. The connector is nothing to do with them and i don't think they even know the LibreOffice connector doesn't work in 3.5.x branch. The connector is part of the LibreOffice project and probably not even an official part of it. I simply copied the announcement from the MariaDb mailing list to let people here know what is going on over there. Regards from Tom :)
--- On Thu, 22/12/11, Fernand Vanrie <[email protected]> wrote: From: Fernand Vanrie <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] MariaDb (v similar to MySql) beta-testing To: [email protected], "Alexander Thurgood" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 22 December, 2011, 8:12 Tom , Do you mean testing MariaDB or the Connector with LO (so yes where to find)? Tom, if your ar interested in LO Connector's to DataBases, please have a look a my question on de QA mailinglist <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/2011-December/000734.html>. The Native MySQL connector is broken for 3.5, we need someone to rebuild the extension (windows). Greetz Fernand > Hi :) > Just thought that some people might want to try beta testing the MariaDb > release candidate to see how well it works as a back-end for Base. Perhaps > comparing it against MySql to see how much more advanced it is although > that's not really an issue anymore. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Wed, 21/12/11, MariaDB Announce List<[email protected]> wrote: > > From: MariaDB Announce List<[email protected]> > Subject: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.3.3-rc now available > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, 21 December, 2011, 17:08 > > The MariaDB project would like to announce the availability of MariaDB > 5.3.3-rc, the latest addition to our growing lineup of supported > software. MariaDB 5.3.3-rc is the first Release Candidate release in > the 5.3 series. We hope to follow it up soon with a stable (GA) > 5.3 release. > > > == MariaDB 5.3.3-rc Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads =============== > > The release notes for MariaDB 5.3.3-rc are available from: > http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-533-release-notes > > A complete changelog for this beta is available from: > http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-533-changelog > > Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: > http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.3.3/ > > Debian and Ubuntu packages (now including Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric") > are available from our mirrored apt repositories. A sources.list > generator can be found at: > http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ > > > > == About MariaDB 5.3.3-rc ============================================= > > In the MariaDB 5.3.3-rc there are a couple of changes compared to > previous 5.3 releases: > > > === Performance: > > Several optimizer features introduced in MariaDB 5.3 have been > thoroughly tested, and switched on by default in 5.3.3. These include: > > * Subquery materialization (materialization=on) > http://kb.askmonty.org/en/non-semi-join-subquery-optimizations > > * Semi-join optimizations (semijoin=on,firstmatch=on,loosescan=on) > http://kb.askmonty.org/en/semi-join-subquery-optimizations > > * Derived table optimization (derived_merge=on,derived_with_keys=on) > (Documentation is being worked on) > > * Index Condition Pushdown (index_condition_pushdown=on) > http://kb.askmonty.org/en/index-condition-pushdown > > * Nested loop join will use its Block-based variant more aggressively > http://kb.askmonty.org/en/block-based-join-algorithms > > * Block-based join for OUTER JOINs (outer_join_with_cache=on) > > * Block-based join for semi-joins (semijoin_with_cache=on) > > * Linked join buffers (more aggressive buffering of multi-way joins) > (@@join_cache_level==2) > > Also, DISTINCT and GROUP BY clauses are now removed from subqueries > when possible. This allows for more efficient query plans. > (backported from MySQL 5.6) > > > === Usability: > > EXPLAIN output has been improved in MariaDB 5.3.3 to be easier to > understand: > > * The select_type column now shows MATERIALIZED for subqueries that > are executed with Materialization (it used to show SUBQUERY, which > made it hard to distinguish materialized subqueries from other > kinds subqueries). > > * For a Duplicate Elimination strategy, Start temporary is now shown > at the first table from the subquery. > > See also: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/explain > > > === GIS Operations: > > GIS precise operations were added in MariaDB 5.3.3 (Documentation for > this is still being worked on). > > > > == About MariaDB 5.3 ================================================== > > The MariaDB 5.3 series introduces many new features, includes MariaDB > 5.2, and is based on MariaDB 5.1& MySQL 5.1. Some highlights of new > features in MariaDB 5.3 include: > > - subquery optimizations that finally make subqueries usable > - many optimizer changes, including Classic Hash Join, Batched Key > Access, a new implementation of Multi-Range-Read optimizations as > well as Index Condition Pushdown > - NoSQL-style interfaces via the HandlerSocket plugin as well as > dynamic columns > - group commit in XtraDB when the binary log is enabled > - Microsoft Windows performance improvements > > These are just some of the highlights, and for a more complete list of > changes, please read the What is MariaDB 5.3 page: > http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-53 > > > > == User Feedback plugin =============================================== > > MariaDB 5.3 includes a User Feedback plugin. This plugin is disabled by > default. If enabled, it submits anonymous basic MariaDB usage > information. This information will be used by the developers to track > trends in MariaDB usage to better guide development efforts. > > If you would like to help make MariaDB better, please add > --plugin-load=feedback.so to your my.cnf file! On Windows, add > "feedback=ON" to your my.ini file, or click the checkbox during the > installation of the MSI package. > > See http://kb.askmonty.org/en/user-feedback-plugin for more information. > > > > == MariaDB Crash Course book ========================================== > > We would also like to mention the book "MariaDB Crash Course", by Ben > Forta. This book -- for beginner to intermediate level users -- will > get you up and running with MariaDB, even if you've never used a > database before. More information is available at: > http://forta.com/books/0321799941/ > > > > == Quality ============================================================ > > The project always strives for quality, but in reality, nothing is > perfect. Please take some time to report any issues you encounter at: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria > > We hope you enjoy MariaDB 5.3.3-rc! > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
