Note: This page is obsolete. The information is old, outdated, or otherwise currently incorrect. We are keeping the page for historical reasons only. Do not rely on the information in this article.
This page describes a "feature preview release" which previewed some replication-related features which are included in . If you would like to try out the features mentioned here, it is recommended that you use (download MariaDB 5.3 here) instead of the actual release described below. Likewise, the code is available in the MariaDB 5.3 tree on Launchpad.
There has been quite a lot of interest in these features, and providing this feature preview release allows the developers to get more and earlier feedback, as well as allowing more users an early opportunity to evaluate the new features.
This feature preview release is based on , adding a number of fairly isolated features that are considered complete and fairly well-tested. It is however not a stable or GA release, nor is it planned to be so.
The stable release including these features will be . That being said, we greatly welcome any feedback / bug reports, and will strive to fix any issues found and we will update the feature preview until stable is ready.
These packages are generated the same way as "official" MariaDB releases. Please see the for more detailed instructions on installation etc.
The instructions below use the mirror , but any of the MariaDB mirrors can be used by replacing the appropriate part of the URLs. See the for what mirrors are available.
For Debian and Ubuntu, it is highly recommended to install from the
repositories, using apt-get, aptitude, or another favorite package
managers.
First import the with
which the repositories are signed, so that apt can verify the integrity of
the packages it downloads. For example, like this:
Now add the appropriate repository. An easy way is to create a file calledmariadb-5.2-rpl.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ with contents like
this for Debian:
Or this for Ubuntu:
Replace "squeeze" or "maverick" in the examples above with the appropriate distribution name. Supported are "lenny" and "squeeze" for Debian, and "hardy", "jaunty", "karmic", "lucid", and "maverick" for Ubuntu.
Now run
The packages can now be installed with your package manager of choice, for example:
(To manually download and install packages, browse the directories below- the .debs are indebian/pool/ and ubuntu/pool/, respectively.)
Generic linux binary tarballs can be downloaded here:
i386 (32-bit):
amd64 (64-bit):
i386 (32-bit):
amd64 (64-bit):
Here is a summary of the new features included in this preview release. The headings link to more detailed information.
This preview release implements group commit which works when using XtraDB with the binary log enabled. (In previous MariaDB releases, and all MySQL releases at the time of writing, group commit works in InnoDB/XtraDB when the binary log is disabled but stops working when the binary log is enabled).
START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT now also works with the binary
log. This means it is possible to obtain the binlog position corresponding
to a transactional snapshot of the database without blocking any other
queries. This is used by mysqldump --single-transaction --master-data to do
a fully non-blocking backup which can be used to provision a new slave.
START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT now also works consistently
between transactions involving more than one storage engine (currently XTraDB
and PBXT support this).
When using row-based replication, the binary log does not contain SQL statements, only discrete single-row insert/update/delete events. This can make it harder to read mysqlbinlog output and understand where in an application a given event may have originated, complicating analysis and debugging.
This feature adds an option to include the original SQL statement as a comment in the binary log (and shown in mysqlbinlog output) for row-based replication events.
This feature can improve the performance of row-based replication on tables
that do not have a primary key (or another unique key), but which do have another
index that can help locate rows to update or delete. With this feature, index
cardinality information from ANALYZE TABLE is considered when selecting the
index to use (before this feature is implemented, the first index was selected
unconditionally).
This feature implements the new commit ordering storage engine API in
PBXT. With this feature, it is possible to use START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT and get consistency among transactions which involve both
XtraDB and InnoDB. (Without this feature, there is no such consistency
guarantee. For example, even after running START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT it was still possible for the InnoDB/XtraDB part of some
transaction T to be visible and the PBXT part of the same transaction T
to not be visible.)
This preview also includes a small change to make mysqlbinlog omit
redundant use statements around BEGIN, SAVEPOINT, COMMIT,
and ROLLBACK events when reading MySQL 5.0 binlogs.
The preview included a feature . However, we decided to omit this feature from future MariaDB releases because of a fundamental design bug, .
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wget -O- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/PublicKey | sudo apt-key add -deb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/mariadb-5.2-rpl/debian squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/mariadb-5.2-rpl/debian squeeze maindeb http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/mariadb-5.2-rpl/ubuntu maverick main
deb-src http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/mariadb/mariadb-5.2-rpl/ubuntu maverick mainsudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install mariadb-server-5.2