Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> I wonder if anyone is thinking about probes that could be standardized
> among various open-source RDBMSs into which they might be added.
>
>   
A few of us have thought about this idea. The thinking was to define a 
set of probes that are common to all DBs and put them in one provider 
(eg: database or db). For DB specific probes, they can be in different 
providers (eg: postgresql, mysql, etc).

After we got some DTrace probes into PostgreSQL 
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/dynamic-trace.html), I talked 
to some folks at MySQL about the standardization idea, and they were in 
favor of it. I'd imagine developers from other OSDBs would be interested 
in doing this as well.

Now that we have probes in MySQL and PostgreSQL, we can start defining 
what the standard set should look like. I'll create a wiki page to 
capture what we have so far, and please contribute especially those who 
are familiar with the MySQL probes. This wiki page will be linked from 
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/databases/, and I should have in up 
in a couple of days.

-Robert

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