Bug#734880: ITP: percona-xtradb-cluster-5.5 -- Synchronously replicated, highly available MySQL

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:18:04PM +0000, James Page wrote:
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> Hi Moritz
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> On 13/01/14 16:06, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> >> Percona XtraDB Cluster provides synchronous replication,
> >> supports
> >>> multi-master replication, parallel applying on slaves,
> >>> automatic node provisioning with primary focus on data
> >>> consistency.
> > Is this another copy of the mysql code base?
> > 
> > If so, that's not feasible!
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> Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) provides a highly-available MySQL
> solution which is based upon the MySQL codebase, but has a quite
> distinctly different set of features - specifically synchronous
> replication provided by Galera.
> 
> This impacts on the standard features of MySQL - for example, query
> cache configuration which is a popular performance optimization is not
> available - so its not feasible to have a single mysql-* package that
> provides both feature sets.
> 
> Percona closely track the upstream MySQL codebase and ship
> security/point releases fairly promptly after Oracle releases them.

So we'll need to ship security updates for Percona six times
a year, which totally sucks as database are notoriously ugly to test.

Are you reliably commiting to prepare tested security updates for
oldstable and stable througout the entire life cycle of Jessie?

Cheers,
        Moritz