Hi Sergey!
OK, no worries. That's exactly why I asked if there were difficulties I
should be aware of. :)
Jay
Sergey Petrunia wrote:
> Hi Jay,
>
> On 7/20/07, Jay Pipes <jay@stripped> wrote:
>> Sergey, would this be something that might be better as a server
>> variable, configurable at runtime? Seems like, given your patch below,
>> a community member might be able to put together a proper patch for
>> MySQL to have a configurable server setting to control this behaviour?
>>
>> What do you think? Are there difficulties I should be aware of?
>
> This patch is a rather crude fix targeted to solve one specific case.
> I don't think it should go into the server, nor in its current form
> neither as a server variable. If we start introducing such server
> variables, we will quickly end up with dozens of them, and it will be
> nearly impossible to tune them.
>
> The real fix is to make everything to work automatically. I have one
> similar bug in the works (BUG#20932), and as far as I am aware, we'll
> get a bug entry for Mark's case and will take time to find the root
> causes of the slowdown (there may be several) and create a proper fix.
> The proper fix will likely have little in common with the provided
> band-aid patch.
>
> BR
> Sergey
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