From: Eric Bergen
Date: September 17 2009 11:22pm
Subject: Re: Is myisam_repair_threads considered safe
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It's been in mysql for at least 7 years.

http://ebergen.net/wordpress/2009/04/11/longest-beta-ever-myisamchk-paralle=
l-recover/

On Thursday, September 10, 2009, Rob Wultsch <wultsch@stripped> wrote:
> myisam_repair_threads
>
> "If this value is greater than 1, MyISAM =A0table indexes are created in
> parallel (each index in its own thread) during the Repair by sorting
> process. The default value is 1.
> Note :Multi-threaded repair is still beta-quality code."
>
> The note is present is all versions of MySQL manual:
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/server-system-variables.html#sysva=
r_myisam_repair_threads
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-system-variables.html#sysva=
r_myisam_repair_threads
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/server-system-variables.html#sysva=
r_myisam_repair_threads
>
>
> Can anyone comment about whether this setting is safe, and if so on
> what major versions?
>
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