> . After you've pulled, run BUILD/compile-pentium (for a lean fast binary)
> or BUILD/compile-pentium-debug - it will build a binary for you.
We run all our MySQLs on the fast SPARCs and PPCs
is pentium the only supported hardware right now?
-RG
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Sasha Pachev wrote:
> Hello, MySQL users/hackers:
>
> As some of you know, we are currently actively working on MySQL 4.0, and are
> making some progress. Those who are subscribed to the internals lists get
> notified of all of our commits and can monitor the progress.
>
> If you would like to do a pull from our repository and play with it, follow
> the instructions at http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/n/Installing_source_tree.html
> . After you've pulled, run BUILD/compile-pentium (for a lean fast binary) or
> BUILD/compile-pentium-debug - it will build a binary for you.
>
> If you have a spare development system, plug in 4.0 binary and try to run
> your applications on it to see if it will crash. If it does, although 4.0 is
> pre-alpha, it is a concern to us - our rule is not to have anything in the
> central repository that we know crashed - each developers has to run make
> test before he can push the change, and it has to pass, maybe with the
> exception of when one developer commits a test case for a bug for some other
> developer to fix it.
>
> So if you can get our tree to crash ( again, we recommend you do not try it
> on a production system yet :-) ), please report it. The sooner you report it,
> the sooner we fix it, and the sooner we get 4.0 into production quality
> release.
>
> Some cool things already coded in the current 4.0 tree:
>
> REPLICATION:
>
> * LOAD DATA FROM MASTER "auto-magically" sets up a slave ( master tables
> will be locked in the current code, but this will be fixed in the future once
> we get hot backup to work)
> * master is aware of slaves if they register
> * client has built-in master/slave awareness that get turned on with special
> client options or through new API calls
>
> GENERAL SQL:
>
> * count(distinct) is about 30% faster
> * records can be read on raw MyISAM level with HANDLER command
> * multi-delete works, but there is a bug we are aware of that we have not
> fixed yet
>
> FULL TEXT:
>
> * All I know is that it works much better - Sergei could fill in the details
>
> The above list is not comlete - I just typed it from memory.
>
> Of course, the new API, SQL syntax, log formats, etc is subject to change
> since we are still pre-alpha, so do not build applications that depend on it
> until we have officially blessed them.
>
> Also, now is the best time to throw in suggestions, feature requests, etc.
> Once we've stablized the branch, it would be a lot harder to get us to change
> things.
>
> So, in short, have fun...
>
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