On Jan 11, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Rob Wultsch wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Jay Pipes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> 
>> Yesterday evening I hacked up some changes to get rid of some global server
>> variables that only related to MyISAM and putting those server variables
>> into the MyISAM plugin's namespace.
>> 
>> As you may or may not know, server variables in a plugin's namespace are
>> automatically prefixed with the name of the plugin.  And, therefore, I'm
>> writing this post to get everyone's approval of the following variable name
>> changes.  Please take special note of the first in the list below.
>> 
>> key_buffer_size => myisam_key_cache_size
>> key_cache_block_size => myisam_key_cache_block_size
>> key_cache_division_limit => myisam_key_cache_division_limit
>> key_cache_age_threshold => myisam_key_cache_age_threshold
>> 
>> Let me know if this is OK.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Jay
> 
> This isn't OK. This is great. The semi-generalized sounding names for
> myisam variables is a footgun.
> 
> -- 
> Rob Wultsch

Agreed! +1000. Although I thought MyISAM might be going away in Drizzle at some 
point entirely?

Tim


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