Hi Stewart, Stewart Smith wrote: > The idea being to move the handler to be a cursor on a table, with > actions not pertaining that to reside in StorageEngine (e.g. DDL). > That sounds like an interesting Idea. This would though involve quite a few changes. Would the curser then still be row based? Or might you convert to a more column oriented way? > There's also the (now rather old) change to drop table return code. > > The next thing that will move into the StorageEngine is metadata > handling with the engine being able to be responsible for its own > (table) metadata. > That would be wonderful. Does the Meta data include statistics on the table (e.g. selectivity estimates etc) that would be needed for the optimizers cost model? > So, is there somebody interested in working with me to have the > MySQL/MariaDB API evolve in the same way? > Is there a targeted MySQL version for this?
Cheers, Peter -- Peter Benjamin Volk _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

