(please use proper quoting in your replies, otherwise it's near impossible to follow what's going on)
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 23:59:23 +0930, Yanbo Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > - it seems all the major bugs are not for rookies, i will surely start > from these at this stage. did you try with any of teh simple low-hanging-fruit tasks such as sprintf replacement? > > About the Cloud Based Storage Engine, here is my understanding and > > questions, can anybody offer me some suggestion and correction... thanks a > > lot. > > > > Looking at mysql-awss3, I think the task is same here - implement a cursor > > (in mysql language it's handler). But I think mysql-awss3 is not a fully > > working plugin, am I right? It seems only the first non-primary-key field > > is written. So here is my first question, according to the project > > description on wiki, "write a Storage Engine (or adapt awss3) for Drizzle - > > allowing storing and retrieving of blobs from Cloud Storage services such > > as S3 and Rackspace Files", so only blobs are written to the cloud? If so, > > what to do with other fields? think of something! we could support various encodings: json, xml or something else. or we could just have plain key,value tables. Current awss3 is for mysql (and an older version at that). We're wanting something for Drizzle. > I think we should incrementally improve things, and provide > configuration options. yes. > e.g. you could choose to have CSV delimited things in the key,value > store, or a protobuf format. or just blobs. > > - if I understand correctly, CSV delimited things means key:(col_1, > col_2, ..., col_n), right? yes. -- Stewart Smith _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
