Where could I read more on the huge schema-update?
Mashiah

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:25 PM, DaB. <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> yesterday at highnoon the master-db-servers were switched because of an
> huge
> schema-update. Because we have only one cluster of db-servers at the moment
> we
> couldn't do the schema-update the same way like the foundation (the
> foundation
> stops one of their slaves, does the schema-update, waits, start it again,
> stops another slave, does the schema-update and so on until all slaves are
> updated, and declare one slave as new master, runs the schema-update on the
> old master = no downtime) and so it took several hours until the
> schema-update
> was done and we could switch to the new master-servers.
> I deleted the view on the logging-table during the update to speed the
> update
> up and killed several long-running queries too tonight.
> The update was finish before I wake-uped, and I just finished the
> masterswitch, restarted replication and recreated the logging-tables (see
> maintaince-log for details). So in a few hours everything should be normal
> again.
>
> Happy Corpus Christi (it's an holiday here :)).
>
> Sincerly,
> DaB.
>
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