Thank you :) On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Stewart Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> (please use proper quoting in your replies, otherwise it's near > impossible to follow what's going on) > sorry I mixed things up, my mail client seems not well configured.. > > 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? > > Not yet, have been busy during the past two days on preparing a presentation in a conference. I am planning to do something like sprintf replacement tomorrow. > > > 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 I get the idea here. Just one more quick question, where do we store the table schema? Also in the cloud side or locally? I think I can start with plain key, value tables. Then add pluggable encodings. > > > 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 >
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