Thanks Rick. So my understanding is muddled.
So how are slaves crash safe? What does MySQL and InnoDB do upon recovery?
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Rick James <rjames@stripped> wrote:
> As I understand it, it is not quite that...
>
> The transaction must get into the Slave's relay log before returning from the COMMIT.
> (That's not the same as "committing".)
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Zardosht Kasheff [mailto:zardosht@stripped]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 8:16 AM
>> To: internals@stripped
>> Subject: making a storage engine crash safe on a slave in MySQL 5.6
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I read that InnoDB is now crash safe on slaves in MySQL 5.6. I
>> understand that a way they do this is on committing a transaction on a
>> slave, they store the binary log position in an InnoDB table (which
>> makes that information transactionally maintained). I also understand
>> that this position is stored for each database, as databases may apply
>> the replication log in parallel.
>>
>> Upon recovery of a slave, how does InnoDB report to MySQL where the
>> replication log should resume?
>>
>> Can another storage engine similarly make itself crash safe on a slave?
>> Will there be any issues with multiple storage engines doing so?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Zardosht
>>
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