Your clients "should" be able to handle the restart.
* What if there were a network glitch? The clients should be able to
reconnect when they notice the dropped connection.
* What if the slave has a disk crash? The clients should automatically
switch to another slave.
* What if an earthquake wipes out the data center? Then you need
replication to a remote site.
* Etc.
Adding a line to my.cnf and restarting the slave is minor compared to
all the other things that can (and eventually will) go wrong.
By having two (or more) slaves behind a load balancer, one can simply
(tediously) restart one slave at a time.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oriol Capsada [mailto:oriolc@stripped]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:52 AM
> To: replication@stripped
> Subject: Re: Add a replicated DB w/o rebooting the server
>
>
> Eric Frazier wrote:
> > Oriol Capsada wrote:
> >> Hi Norbert,
> >>
> >> Ok, when I said reboot the server I was referring to restart the
> >> mysql proceess. I see that my expression was not clear enough :)
> >>
> >> And I would prefer not to restart the mysql process because some
> >> services may not have persistent connections. Therefore,
> if I restart
> >> the server those connections would be lost...
> >>
> >> So, any way to add the database without having to restart
> the mysql
> >> process?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Oriol.
> >>
> >> Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> >>> Am Mittwoch, den 31.10.2007, 11:21 +0100 schrieb Oriol Capsada:
> >>>
> >>>> Everything I have read about adding a new database to a slave
> >>>> replication talks about adding a new line in the
> configuration file
> >>>> (for example a replicate-wild-do-table) and then restart
> the server.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is it possible to do so without having to reboot the server?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> You don't need to reboot the whole server, it's enough to
> restart just
> >>> the mysqld server process (e.g. with '/etc/init.d/mysql restart').
> >>>
> >>> Norbert
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You just need to NOT specify all of the dbs you are
> replicating. It is
> > like a tradition that people do that, but not needed. Once
> you specify
> > one DB however, you imply that the others are not to be
> replicated. I
> > have done this before and create database statements do get
> replicated
> > as well.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
>
> As DBs can't be added without rebooting I suppose that this
> is what I am
> finally going to do, not specify the DB names and replicate
> all of them.
>
> Thanks for your answers.
>
> Regards,
> Oriol.
>
>
>
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