I agree with Arjen about named pipe. Almost nobody use it anyway. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:51, Arjen Lentz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sergey, all > > On 14/10/2009, at 6:41 PM, Sergey Petrunya wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:44:01AM +0200, Peter Laursen wrote: >> >>> The billion dollar question is: what options should a config wizard >>> (ideally) provide? >>> . >>> base configuration (memory requirements, #of_connections assumed): use: >>> mini, midi, medium. large, huge --template >>> default storage engine: MyISAM, Maria, XtraDB, PBXT >>> default charset: latin1, utf8, custom >>> enable slow log: yes|no >>> enable general log: yes|no >>> enable query cache: yes|no >>> .. what else is important? >>> >> Parameters that would allow to install multiple servers side-by side: >> port to listen on, named pipe name, perhaps windows service name. >> Binary log should probably always be enabled. >> > > Forget the named pipe, since it's slower. > > I don't think work on installer should include development of a >> configurator >> that will cover all options. Imo, the goals of install-time configurator >> should >> be: >> >> * Allow one to get to runnable setup always. This means ability to specify >> install directory, port number, service name (i.e. allow to change any >> setting that might get into conflict with something). >> > > install dir (default derived from version), service name, port number... > yes. > > > * Allow to change 'simple' options (e.g. what to use as default storage >> engine, >> sql_mode, and other stuff that a newcomer might be immediately interested >> in. >> > > A newcomer does not know enough to either sensibly decide on storage > engine, or sql_mode. > So we should pick what is sensible, and that's InnoDB with > sql_mode=TRADITIONAL. > As I noted, this is already what the Sun/MySQL Windows wizard defaults to, > unless you specify that you don't want transactions. > Now the latter is something I don't care for asking, because people really > don't appreciate the implications of the question. > Furthermore, it would be great to have MariaDB be ACID compliant "out of > the box", on all platforms. > And it'd be nice if the config on Windows would be (at least broadly) the > same as on *nix. > > > I don't think it makes sense to offer the user to specify options like >> query_cache_size - there's hardly anybody who could come up with a >> meaningful >> value at install time. Most users won't know, those who know exactly will >> probably prefer to edit the config file over using installer's GUI. >> > > > Exactly. > > > Cheers, > Arjen. > -- > Arjen Lentz, Exec.Director @ Open Query (http://openquery.com) > Exceptional Services for MySQL at a fixed budget. > > Follow our blog at http://openquery.com/blog/ > OurDelta: enhanced builds for MySQL @ http://ourdelta.org > > > > > > > > >
_______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
