Op woensdag 15 augustus 2012 12:38:47 schreef blind Pete: > AL13N wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As you all likely know, at mageia we replaced MySQL with MariaDB. > > > > When MariaDB devs told me that it seemed their biggest market was Windows, > > I was really astounded. > > > > They then referred me to the feedback plug and this statistics page: > > http://mariadb.org/feedback_plugin/stats/os/ > > > > The explanation is quite simple: > > - Windows users need to download the version from MariaDB site (which has > > > > feedback enabled by default). > > > > - Linux users can get it from MariaDB site, or from their own distro. > > (and > > > > those versions don't have feedback enabled by default at all...) (for good > > reason). > > > > Still, the numbers are completely wrong, and therefor, i urge all of you > > to load the feedback plugin for all servers you manage! so that these > > statistics can better influence both MariaDB and Mageia. > > > > How to enable feedback plugin? easy: > > > > 1. install mariadb-feedback package > > 2. load it in your config file, by adding it to your plugin-load line: > > > > (in /etc/my.cnf ) > > > > plugin_dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin > > plugin-load=ha_archive.so;ha_blackhole.so;ha_federatedx.so;feedback.so > > > > 3. if possible, if you're using KDE, your akonadi also uses mariadb. so > > you can add this to your akonadi mariadb config file too, in mysqld > > section: > > > > (in ~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf ) > > Could that file be overwritten in an update? > There is a comment in that file that suggests > personalization should be somewhere else.
i don't think so, since it's in the user's homedir... if it's being overwritten, it'll be overwritten by the akonadi program itself, or maybe akonadiconsole or something... but i doubt it, i think it's only being made for new users... > > [mysqld] > > plugin_dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin > > plugin-load=feedback.so > > Perhaps create a file ~/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf > that contains the line > > plugin-load=feedback.so but if that's the file that's being used for custom things, then sure, by all means. > > then restart akonadi with (akonadictl restart) > > > > > > > > thanks in advance, > > > > AL13N (mageia mariadb maintainer)
