RE: MERGE FULLTEXT, two years later.

2002-07-08 Thread Sander Pilon
-Original Message- From: Sergei Golubchik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 12:53 To: Sander Pilon Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MERGE FULLTEXT, two years later. Hi! On Jul 08, Sander Pilon wrote: I searched the archives and in December 2000

MERGE FULLTEXT, two years later.

2002-07-07 Thread Sander Pilon
I searched the archives and in December 2000 it did 'not yet' work. ( http://listarchive.nextrieve.com/mysql//200012/msg00539.html ) Will MERGE tables and FULLTEXT indexes work together in 4.x? Two-and-a-half years later? Regards, -Sander

Replication for tables that get updated with user vars

2002-07-05 Thread Sander Pilon
Is it possible to run replication on tables that are updated with user vars? Example: SET @id = 1; does not show up in binlog!! INSERT INTO table SET id = @id; Now, on the master it works fine. The slave fails because the SET does not seem to show up in the binlog, @id is not set, and the

RE: MYSQL 4.0

2002-06-27 Thread Sander Pilon
-Original Message- From: Daniel Koch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 13:11 To: Arul Cc: MySQL Subject: Re: MYSQL 4.0 Arul wrote: Hi Any idea when MySQL 4.0 stable release will be made.. As of now only Alpha is released.. Also any sites

Table design (innodb) question

2002-06-07 Thread Sander Pilon
When you have a table with both numeric and variable-length text data, and you need to update the numeric part a lot, it made sense in MyISAM to split the numeric from the textpart. (Because working on fixed-length tables is so much faster.) Say... Original: Table 1: id1 int, id2 int,

InnoDB table design Q

2002-06-05 Thread Sander Pilon
When you have a table with both numeric and variable-length text data, and you need to update the numeric part a lot, it made sense in MyISAM to split the numeric from the textpart. (Because working on fixed-length tables is so much faster.) Say... Original: Table 1: id1, id2, articletext

RE: Data Normalization Paradox

2001-10-28 Thread Sander Pilon
-Original Message- From: Ryan Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 October 2001 00:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Data Normalization Paradox Among other criteria, it mentions that in first order normalization No repeating groups of data are

RE: Memory allocators / STL

2001-10-26 Thread Sander Pilon
-Original Message- From: Sinisa Milivojevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 October 2001 13:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Memory allocators / STL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you know if this is the case even with the GCC v3.0.1? What is

InnoDB vs MyISAM on COUNT(*) ... WHERE ...

2001-09-18 Thread Sander Pilon
I'm thinking of switching to InnoDB, however - my application does a few COUNT(*) WHERE queries on large tables (somewhere between 50K and 2M rows) I've read up on InnoDB and its issues with COUNT(*) on entire tables, but is there a reason to assume that InnoDB is also slower when

RE: Downsides of MySQL?

2001-08-16 Thread Sander Pilon
MySQL - as I said at our meeting, we would not be comfortable with this as an enterprise strength solution. MySQL is unsupported freeware and lacks enterprise management functionality. True, if you ask me. It has a small limited feature set compared to ORACLE, DB/2 True. No

RE: Innodb table size

2001-07-30 Thread Sander Pilon
Lose (some of) the keys!? Keys, especially on small rows (where a key introduces a lot of overhead), can take a significant percentage of space. Turn on key compression? (dunno if innodb supports that) Other then that I wouldn't know. But live with the fact that keys introduce overhead. It

RE: Different logs for different databases?

2001-07-29 Thread Sander Pilon
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:50:53PM -0700, Jim Matzdorff wrote: difficult to do (add the necessary code to MySQL), provided that the logging code is as straightforward as the binary logging code. i figured something like that, though i don't know the internals. it seems it

RE: Sort-of theoretical db design question

2001-07-28 Thread Sander Pilon
So you're saying like this...? Albums -- ID,Artist,Title,Label Tracks -- Title,Length,TrackNumber,AlbumID Where there is one album table and one track table, and each track references back to the album that it is a member of? I'm liking that... It doesn't make it easy

RE: mysql.org

2001-07-19 Thread Sander Pilon
the same time, a NuSphere-controlled mysql.org doesn't strike me as a disaster, provided they can do it with out shooting themselves in the foot, as they are doing now. Nah There using it as a marketing ploy to dup the public. The should have released their GPLed extentions

RE: Small Problem with a function

2001-07-18 Thread Sander Pilon
You must compile PHP with the mysql module enabled. See the PHP manual for more information. (Or search the excellent php mailinglist archives at http://www.php.net/support.php) -Original Message- From: Rick Makla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 July 2001 17:02 To: [EMAIL

RE: transactions

2001-07-16 Thread Sander Pilon
MySQL supports transactions if you are using either InnoDB or Gemini table types. Cal Are we forgetting BDB tables? Yes.. yes.. I believe we are! http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/D/BDB_characteristic.html - Before

RE: innobase 4gb rows

2001-07-15 Thread Sander Pilon
Note that the new BLOB code is not well tested yet, though I have not received any bug reports for it. It may be best to experiment first with pieces of your table instead of doing the whole, maybe several hours long, conversion at once. Can you tell us a bit more about the BLOB code?

RE: mysql.org

2001-07-14 Thread Sander Pilon
This is very interesting, this Open Source Legal Resolution ;-) Indeed it is. The thing I find most interesting, and a bit scary, is the way people seem to pick sides. For example - vermin, scum, obscure, are just a few of the words recently used to describe the likes of NuSphere.

RE: mysql.org

2001-07-14 Thread Sander Pilon
is of the trademark application? Under way, finished, or in the mail as suggested by the other post from Sander Pilon? (I don't know about US legal aspects here, but I'ld assume in the mail is rather different from finished...) These are the two primary applications: http://tarr.uspto.gov

RE: MySQL.org

2001-07-13 Thread Sander Pilon
Hi! cut Sander I do not deny their claim on the trademark OR domain, but I am Sander somewhat unpleasantly surprised by the means they try to resolve Sander this matter, and the fact that nobody in a what I assume is an Sander internet-aware company like MySQL even considered

RE: MySQL.org

2001-07-12 Thread Sander Pilon
Sander Pilon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think all of us should send a letter to the people who appropriated the MySQL.org name. In my opinion, if MySQL AB wants this domain they should have the right to it. To me, it is a show of disrespect to the fine folks at MySQL

RE: What does tmp_table_size *really* do?

2001-06-16 Thread Sander Pilon
The answer to ALL your 'where can I get it' questions is - 1) Freshmeat. www.freshmeat.net (Search for 'cscope'.) 2) Google. www.google.com (Repeat search) Seaarch 1 results in this url: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cscope/ -Sander -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Unicode

2001-06-02 Thread Sander Pilon
You can *STORE* Unicode (UTF-8) in MySQL just fine. Just don't expect text-search (LIKE, =, etc) to do anything useful with it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of md Sent: 1 June 2001 15:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unicode

RE: Help with FreeBSD 4.2 Native Threads (was: Compile broken: mysql-3.23.38/mit-pthreads)

2001-05-16 Thread Sander Pilon
Freebsd does not have a libpthreads file. Just compile with -pthread(s) and it'll work. Well, it does for me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 May 2001 16:18 To: Sinisa Milivojevic Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help with FreeBSD

RE: Help with FreeBSD 4.2 Native Threads (was: Compile broken: mysql-3.23.38/mit-pthreads)

2001-05-16 Thread Sander Pilon
Compiled with -D_REENTRANT -D_PTHREADS -fPIC -DPIC -Wall Linked with -pthread but its not mysql. For mysql I just did ./configure; make; make install -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 May 2001 17:11 To: Sander Pilon Cc: 'Sinisa

RE: windoze and batch files

2001-05-03 Thread Sander Pilon
No editing?!? Psch... louzy programmers. ( see http://www.jpsoft.com/index.htm for proof that consoles in NT/2K consoled can edit just fine, etc.) But... there are numerous mysql clients available, also for windows. I bet you can find one with fine edit capabilities in the contrib section. ( I

RE: Problems with MySQL++

2001-04-29 Thread Sander Pilon
2001 14:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problems with MySQL++ Sander Pilon writes: It is fine and complete will all chapters and in all formats. This page used to have lots of cool documentation... http://www.mysql.com

RE: Problems with MySQL++

2001-04-28 Thread Sander Pilon
Howdy, I posted this question over on the plusplus list, but so far I've not received a response. This list seems more active, so perhaps someone here can offer me a hand. I'm trying to get the 1.7.8 distribution of MySQL++ to build as directed in the README -- using automake.

RE: which is fastest connect or pconnect ?

2001-04-19 Thread Sander Pilon
We often get a message from MySQL that there are too many connections. What can we do ? Should we use connect rather than pconnect ? We use Php 4.04pl1, Linux, Apache 1.3.17 and MySQL 3.23.32 Yes, you should. That, or increade the amount of allowed connections, or decrease the

RE: Problem with mysql++, Aborted (core dumped)

2001-04-16 Thread Sander Pilon
"Aborted" in a C++ program usually means an exception was thrown that you didn’t catch. In this case, the connection constructor could have thrown something. try { Connection MySQL(db, host, user, pass); } catch(...) { cout "Connection failed." endl; } Check the

RE: UTF-8 supported, compatible or plain won't work ?

2001-04-14 Thread Sander Pilon
UTF-8 is just another encoding scheme. You can store UTF-8 just fine in MySQL (using BLOB, or perhaps even CHAR), however you cannot do much more with it beyond storing. Comparisons aren't likely to work, character-length calculations will not work, etc. So if all you wanna do is store and

RE: MySQL++ Compile / link problems on freebsd

2001-03-31 Thread Sander Pilon
Hi Sander! On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:11:02PM +0200, Sander Pilon wrote: I'm getting a whole lot of mysql++ link problems on freebsd :/ Used gcc 2.95.3, latest mysql++ The program links fine under linux win32. Any idea's? [...] What version of FreeBSD are you currently

MySQL++ Compile / link problems on freebsd

2001-03-29 Thread Sander Pilon
I'm getting a whole lot of mysql++ link problems on freebsd :/ Used gcc 2.95.3, latest mysql++ The program links fine under linux win32. Any idea's? g++-L/usr/local/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -pthread -o bord main.o BMain.o options.o ../actioninterface/libactioninterface.a

RE: Search Engine Theory

2001-02-28 Thread Sander Pilon
Web robots are not search engines (just the things that fill the engines), as far as I understand. As I mailed to J. earlier, most searchengine algorithms aren't directly compatible with (my)sql. (Meaning that, for the best performance *you* have to do the searching, and not mysql - once you

RE: ReisserFS

2001-02-22 Thread Sander Pilon
-Original Message- From: Simon Windsor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 February 2001 16:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ReisserFS Hi Has anyone user MySql on a ReisserFS file system ? Where any problems encountered ? and do you have any pearls of wisdom that you are

More Innobase questions (Was: RE: Innobase)

2001-02-22 Thread Sander Pilon
Good questions - I have a few more :) A) why does it seem to use fixed-size storage units. (The files) B) what happens when they ar full? C) can it auto-create new files as demand grows? D) can you safely add new files when there is data in them already? Regards, Sander -Original

RE: ReisserFS

2001-02-22 Thread Sander Pilon
Right, As far as *MySQL* goes I haven't noticed this in particular. That's because most mysql reads are indexed and use keys/caches. As far as general performance goes, I've definitely noticed it. (Creation/Deletion of large and large number of files is much, MUCH faster than ext2 - and

RE: Large text searches

2001-02-01 Thread Sander Pilon
on 2/1/01 1:36 PM, Gonzalo Aguilar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Making search engines is not a trivial thing, but this may be an aproach... I appreciate all the replies. In my original post I also asked about the FULL TEXT index type. If I may ask again, has anyone had any experience

RE: Large fields vs. performance

2001-01-30 Thread Sander Pilon
Ren Tegel wrote: This is a very good idea, and in fact the only workable way. Your performance will not lower when retrieving the documents, cause those fields are indexed. Your memory use will decrease as well, since the file cache does not have to cache a big table when

RE: Large fields vs. performance

2001-01-30 Thread Sander Pilon
Could be just parania. Several time a second is not much. My guess is that you'll be fine. If it gets slower upgrade your hardware or reconfigure your OS or/and FS or/and MySQL. Anyway, my string opinion is that you should split the table. As i said before that we've been doing for

RE: Very slow to connect

2001-01-29 Thread Sander Pilon
Is this perhaps related to the 'slow thread creation' 'feature' of some linux kernels? http://lists.mysql.com/php/search.php?ps=10q=fast+thread+creation+ps=20m= and -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leonardo Dias Sent: 29 January 2001

RE: Very slow to connect

2001-01-29 Thread Sander Pilon
[1 text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)] I don't know if any of you people have ever had this trouble, but it's been a messy one here. Whenever a website of ours get lots of traffic, MySQL gets too slow to connect. Whenever it connects, the queries are fast. Since lots of our

RE: RAW Device support

2001-01-27 Thread Sander Pilon
-Original Message- From: Nazeem Y [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 January 2001 19:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RAW Device support Does MySQl syupport RAW devices ? Thanks You mean devices that can Read And Write? Sure. If you perhaps mean that it can address

SQL query problem

2001-01-23 Thread Sander Pilon
Okay, here's one for the guru's out there :) I have a list of entries with unique id numbers X, and a set of sort methods (S1 ... Sy). Now, if I want to get an entry at position P (0...z) in the list of entries ordered by method S1 then I'd make the following query: SELECT X FROM table WHERE