How to use git-bisect to find a workaround for a compiler bug in older GCC versions that it already fixed in current versions.

Decoding binary protocols in python is far away from the speed one knows from C based decoders. Static typing with Cython to the rescue.

Every once in a while the Continuous Integration reminds me that the code I write isn't "that" portable. I develop on Linux, push to the SCM and the CI goes out and builds on several Unixes and Windows.

Fixing windows build issues through the CI takes quite a while ...

Roland opened a bug "Documentation indicates some MYSQL_FIELD->flags are deprecated which aren't."

The MySQL protocol uses the string values of ENUM- and SET-fields. To indicate that this string originated from a ENUM- or SET-column the ENUM_FLAG and SET_FLAG are used in the Column Defintion

Same as Roland ...

Now that forge.mysql.com is shutdown the protocol documentation found a new/old home at:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/client-server-protocol.html

It documents the early days of MySQL 3.20 as seen in:

• Protocol V9 (used by MySQL 3.20 and later)

up to the features ...

We are proud to announce the release of

MySQL Proxy 0.8.3 (alpha)

which updates MySQL Proxy for the protocol changes introduced in MySQL 5.5 and 5.6.

All users of MySQL Proxy 0.8.x are recommend to upgrade.

ChangeLog

• added network timeouts for connect, read and ...

Today a little history lesson.

I was on a quest to find the origin of this line in include/mysql_com.h:

#define CLIENT_LONG_PASSWORD    1       /* new more secure passwords */

"new" ? "more secure" ?

These CLIENT_* flags are used between client and server to negotiate what capabilities they support. It allows the server ...

I use MacOS X for most of my development work, but part of my job is writing apps that run on all major Unixes and Win32. Most of the time bugs and memleaks are "portable", meaning that they appear on all platforms in the same way and fixing them on ...

I'm preparing the code for my MySQLConf 2010 session "MySQL Proxy meets: Memcache" where I'll present how to replicate from MySQL to memcache by using the MySQL Proxy.

Part of it will be using the semi-sync replication support for MySQL 5.5 to implement a synchronous MySQL-to-Memcache replication ...

MySQL Proxy 0.8.0 has been released at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-proxy/

While it took a while to get it out, it contains a lot of good stuff and will make a few more things possible for the future. First of all, it is the first release ...