Author: shinz
Date: 2005-12-07 15:51:22 +0100 (Wed, 07 Dec 2005)
New Revision: 510
Log:
Add 5.1.3 changelog, and (derived from that) list of What's New in MySQL 5.0
Modified:
trunk/refman-5.1/introduction.xml
trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml
trunk/refman-common/titles.en.ent
Modified: trunk/refman-5.1/introduction.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-5.1/introduction.xml 2005-12-07 13:39:16 UTC (rev 509)
+++ trunk/refman-5.1/introduction.xml 2005-12-07 14:51:22 UTC (rev 510)
@@ -393,15 +393,83 @@
<title id="title-mysql-5-1-nutshell">&title-mysql-5-1-nutshell;</title>
<para>
- For a list of features that we plan to add in MySQL 5.1, see
- <xref linkend="roadmap"/>. We will add more detailed information
+ The following features are implemented in MySQL 5.1.
+ We will add more detailed information
to this section as 5.1 development continues.
</para>
- <para>
- See also <xref linkend="partitioning"/>.
- </para>
-
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Partitioning</emphasis>:
+ allows distributing portions of individual tables
+ across a filesystem, according to rules which can be set when the
+ table is created. In effect, different portions of a table are stored
+ as separate tables in different locations, but from the user
+ point of view, the partitioned table is still a single table. See
+ <xref linkend="partitioning"/> for further
+ information on this functionality. (Author: Mikael Ronström)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Plugin API</emphasis>:
+ MySQL 5.1 will add support for a very flexible plugin API that will
+ allow the loading and unloading of various components at runtime,
+ without restarting the server. While the work on this are not finished
+ yet, <emphasis>pluggable full-text parsers</emphasis>
+ are a first step in this direction.
+ This allows users to implement their own input filter on the indexed
+ text, enabling full-text search capability on arbitrary data like PDF
+ files or other document formats. A pre-parser full-text plugin
+ performs the actual parsing and extraction of the text and hands it
+ over to the builtin MySQL full-text search.
+ (Author: Sergey Vojtovich)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">The Instance Manager (IM)</emphasis>
+ now has some additional functionality:
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>SHOW <replaceable>instance_name</replaceable> LOG FILES</literal>
+ provides a listing of all log files used by the instance. (Author: Petr Chardin)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>SHOW <replaceable>instance_name</replaceable>
+ LOG {ERROR | SLOW | GENERAL} <replaceable>size</replaceable></literal>
+ retrieves a part of the specified log file. (Author: Petr Chardin)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>SET <replaceable>instance_name</replaceable>.
+ <replaceable>option_name</replaceable>=<replaceable>option_value</replaceable></literal>
+ sets an option to
+ the specified value and writes it to the config file
+ See <xref linkend="instance-manager"/> for
+ more details on these new commands. (Author: Petr Chardin)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
</section>
</section>
Modified: trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml 2005-12-07 13:39:16 UTC (rev 509)
+++ trunk/refman-common/news-5.1.xml 2005-12-07 14:51:22 UTC (rev 510)
@@ -177,11 +177,120 @@
<para>
Functionality added or changed:
</para>
-
+
+ <para>
+ This is the first public alpha release of the current MySQL 5.1
+ development branch, providing an insight to upcoming features. While
+ some of these are still under heavy development, this release includes
+ the following new features and changes (in comparison to the current
+ MySQL 5.0 production release):
+ </para>
+
<itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Partitioning</emphasis>:
+ allows distributing portions of individual tables
+ across a filesystem, according to rules which can be set when the
+ table is created. In effect, different portions of a table are stored
+ as separate tables in different locations, but from the user
+ point of view, the partitioned table is still a single table. See
+ <xref linkend="partitioning"/> for further
+ information on this functionality. (Author: Mikael Ronström)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Plugin API</emphasis>:
+ MySQL 5.1 will add support for a very flexible plugin API that will
+ allow the loading and unloading of various components at runtime,
+ without restarting the server. While the work on this are not finished
+ yet, <emphasis>pluggable full-text parsers</emphasis>
+ are a first step in this direction.
+ This allows users to implement their own input filter on the indexed
+ text, enabling full-text search capability on arbitrary data like PDF
+ files or other document formats. A pre-parser full-text plugin
+ performs the actual parsing and extraction of the text and hands it
+ over to the builtin MySQL full-text search.
+ (Author: Sergey Vojtovich)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis role="bold">The Instance Manager (IM)</emphasis>
+ now has some additional functionality:
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>SHOW <replaceable>instance_name</replaceable> LOG FILES</literal>
+ provides a listing of all log files used by the instance. (Author: Petr Chardin)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>SHOW <replaceable>instance_name</replaceable>
+ LOG {ERROR | SLOW | GENERAL} <replaceable>size</replaceable></literal>
+ retrieves a part of the specified log file. (Author: Petr Chardin)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>SET <replaceable>instance_name</replaceable>.
+ <replaceable>option_name</replaceable>=<replaceable>option_value</replaceable></literal>
+ sets an option to
+ the specified value and writes it to the config file
+ See <xref linkend="instance-manager"/> for
+ more details on these new commands. (Author: Petr Chardin)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
+ Two new aggregate functions, <function>STDDEV_POP</function>
+ and <function>STDDEV_SAMP</function>, for computing
+ the population and sample standard deviation of expressions.
+ See <xref linkend="group-by-functions"/>
+ for more info. (Author: Sergey Vojtovich)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The performance of boolean full-text searches (using the <quote>+</quote>
+ Operator) has been improved. See
+ <xref linkend="fulltext-search"/>
+ for more details about full-text searching.
+ (Author: Sergey Vojtovich)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>VARCHAR</literal> fields used in MySQL Cluster
+ tables are now variable-sized;
+ that is, they now only allocate as much space as required to store
+ the data. Previously, a <literal>VARCHAR(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</literal>
+ column allocated n+2 bytes (aligned
+ to 4 bytes), regardless if the actual inserted value required that
+ much space. (In other words, a <literal>VARCHAR</literal> column always required the
+ same, fixed, amount of storage as a <literal>CHAR</literal> column of the same size.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
Renamed the <literal>table_cache</literal> system variable to
<literal>table_open_cache</literal>. Any scripts that refer to
<literal>table_cache</literal> should be updated to use the
@@ -201,14 +310,6 @@
</itemizedlist>
- <para>
- Bugs fixed:
- </para>
-
- <remark>
- ADD AN ITEMIZED LIST WHEN WE HAVE SOME ITEMS THAT GO HERE
- </remark>
-
</section>
<section id="news-5-1-2">
Modified: trunk/refman-common/titles.en.ent
===================================================================
--- trunk/refman-common/titles.en.ent 2005-12-07 13:39:16 UTC (rev 509)
+++ trunk/refman-common/titles.en.ent 2005-12-07 14:51:22 UTC (rev 510)
@@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@
<!ENTITY title-news-5-0-x "Changes in release 5.0.x (Production)">
<!ENTITY title-news-5-1-1 "Changes in release 5.1.1 (Not released)">
<!ENTITY title-news-5-1-2 "Changes in release 5.1.2 (Not released)">
-<!ENTITY title-news-5-1-3 "Changes in release 5.1.3 (Not yet released)">
+<!ENTITY title-news-5-1-3 "Changes in release 5.1.3 (29 November 2005)">
<!ENTITY title-news-5-1-4 "Changes in release 5.1.4 (Not yet released)">
<!ENTITY title-news-5-1-x "Changes in release 5.1.x (Development)">
<!ENTITY title-no-matching-rows "Solving Problems with No Matching Rows">
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| • svn commit - mysqldoc@docsrva: r510 - in trunk: refman-5.1 refman-common | stefan | 7 Dec |
