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Mr. Schram has served on the Fortwood Center Board since 2009. He served as vice president in 2010 and 2011 and president since October of 2012. During his tenure, he has served on the following committees: Executive, Finance and Project. Schram, of counsel in Baker Donelson's Chattanooga office, concentrates his practice in real estate development. Mr. Schram has been listed in Best Lawyers in America in the area of Real Estate Law since 2008.
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Hello all!
Thank you for a nice forum.
I had been doing some Finance lately which requires the use of timeline.
However, I still draw them in PPt og that like...
Hmm, so I hope you guys can help me out.
A timeline with cashflows, and the possibility to draw arrows to show pv, fv and so on.
Can you translate that into a common language so everybody who is not familiar with these acronyms can understand it? If I would talk about AES, MBE and XPS you wouldn't understand, too. And by the way it would be helpful if can give a visual example of such a time line.
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Ofcourse, that was foolish of mé to assume that you knew.
And example look at http://www.calcblog.com/business-financ ... nuity-due/
So a cash flow timeline is an ordinary horisontal timeline that shows numbers at different time. Cash in or cash out.
The mission is with the interest to be able to compare allings over time, by calculating the value of the cash flow to the same point in time.
It is common to show by arrows which amounts that has ben discounted back in time or forth, by showing a bendes arror from that amount back to the relant time.
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I don't know if there's any good software for doing specifically this, but for drawing simple diagrams there are MUCH better drawing programs than powerpoint!
I suggest Inkscape http://inkscape.org/, although it may be overkill for what you need.
Oh yes, there is. The pgf/tikZ package is doing a great job here (see attachment).
The only disfigurement is a misplaced equal sign in the equation system and I don't know why. I'm thinking about doing this in a different way but the matrix is easier for the arrow connections.
I'm sure this can be done similarly in PSTricks, but pgf/tikZ appeared easier to me. And since I don't use LyX, I have no idea how to incorporate this solution into a LyX document.
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I first saw that U20 in a shop and I wasn't even thinking of buying any still camera(I'm a fan of DV-cameras...). I went back home and checked some user's comments and price level and then back to the shop.
After a few hundred of pictures I think that I got just the camera I wanted - easy to use and carry and enough quality!
Greetings from Finland and the price was 199 euros!
No real problems. Recharger is quite slow, but 2 sets of batts help. Should have audio with video...
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Class: 5A
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We are working on a triggerless online schema migration solution. It is based on an asynchronous approach, similarly to the FB osc and as opposed to the synchronous solution as used by pt-online-schema-change.
We asynchronously synchronize (is that even a valid statement?) between some table tbl and a ghost table ghost, and at some time we want to cut-over: swap the two; kick out tbl and put ghost in its place and under its name.
However, we cannot use the single statement rename tbl to tbl_old, ghost to tbl, because we use the asynchronous approach, where at the time we lock tbl for writes, we still have some events we need to process and apply onto ghost before swapping the two.
And MySQL does not allow a lock tables tbl write; ... ; rename tbl to tbl_old, ghost to tbl.
In Solving the Facebook-OSC non-atomic table swap problem we suggested a way that works, unless when it doesn't work. Read the caveat at the end of the post. Premature death of a connection that participates in the algorithm causes a chain reaction that leads to the premature execution of the rename statement, potentially before we've applied those remaining events. This leads to data inconsistency between the old table and the new table, and is unacceptable.
To that effect, we were more inclined to go with the Facebook solution, which makes a two-step: lock tables tbl write; alter table tbl rename to tbl_old; ... ; alter table ghost rename to tbl;
This two-step solution is guaranteed not to have data inconsistency. Alas, it also implies an outage. There's a brief moment, in between the two renames, and during that time where we apply those last changes, where the table tbl is simply not there.
Not all applications will fail gracefully on such a scenario.
We looked at a solution based on UDFs, where we would create global wait conditions, that are not connection based.
We don't like UDFs. You need to compile them for every new version. Puppetizing their setup is not fun. We wouldn't like maintaining this. We wouldn't like doing the operations for this. Neither would the community.
We want to make this a community solution. Can we do without UDF?
We wish to avoid forking our own version of MySQL. It's not what we do and it's a pain.
We found a solution to embrace; it is optimistic, and safe. hat optimistic means is explained further on, but let's discuss safe:
The previous solution we came up with as unsafe because breakage of a single component in the algorithm would lead to inconsistent data. The algorithm itself was fine, as long as no one would break it from the outside. This is the concern: what if some crazy cronjob that cleans up connections (kills idle connections, kills long running transactions) or some unfortunate user command kills one of the connections involved in the cut-over phase? This is not something that would happen every day, but can we protect against it? Our priority is to keep our data intact.
The solution allows breakage. Even in the face of death of connections, data is not lost/corrupted, and at worst -- causes a FB-like, recoverable outage scenario.
I wish to illustrate something that looks like it would work, but in fact has a hidden flaw. We will later improve on that solution.
Let's assume we have tbl, ghost tables. We execute the following by multiple connections; we call them C1, C2, C3, ...:
Let's consider the above, and see why it is flawed. But first, why it would typically work in the first place.
We rename when C1 holds the lock. We check with C1 that it is alive and kicking. Yep, it's connected and holding the lock. Are you sure? Yep, I'm good! Really really sure? Yep! OK then, let's rename!
"Oh darn", says C1, "now that you went ahead to rename, but just before you actually sent the request, I decided to take time off and terminate". Or, more realistically, some job would kill C1.
What happens now? The rename is not there yet. All those queries get released, and are immediately applied onto tbl, and then the rename applies, kicks all those changes into oblivion, and puts ghost in place, where it immediately receives further writes.
Those blocking queries were committed but never to be seen again.
So here's another way to look at the problem: the rename made it through even though the connection C1 died just prior to that, whereas we would have loved the rename to abort upon such case.
Is there a way in MySQL to cause an operation to fail or block when another connection dies? It's the other way around! Connections hold locks, and those get released when they die!
But there's a way...
Here are the steps to a safe solution:
What just happened? Let's first explain some stuff:
What happens on failures?
rename tbl_old to tbl
This solution relies on the notion that if a previous connection failed, we would not be able to rename ghost to tbl because the table would still be there. That's what we were looking for; but instead of looking at locks, which get released when a connection terminates, we used a persistent entity: a table.
The algorithm above is optimistic: if no connections get weirdly killed, it's a valid locking solution, and queries & app are unaware that anything happened (granted, app will notice write latency). If connections do get weirdly killed, we get table-outage at worst case -- an outage that is already considered to be a valid solution anyhow. The algorithm will not allow data corruption.]]>
pt-online-schema-change and facebook-osc are two popular online-schema-change solutions for MySQL. They both use triggers, but in different ways. While the Percona tool uses synchronous table updates, such that any INSERT|UPDATE|DELETE on the modified table causes an INSERT|UPDATE|DELETE on a ghost table, in the Facebook tool all cause an INSERT on a changelog table, which is then iterated, read, having entries applied on the ghost table.
The TL;DR is that DMLs on the table propagate synchronously, within same transaction in the Percona tool, and asynchronously, with lag, in the Facebook tool.
In the Percona tool, once the logic is satisfied the copy is complete, we issue this query:
RENAME TABLE tbl TO tbl_old, tbl_new TO tbl;
This is an atomic, two table RENAME operation.
However with the asynchronous nature of the Facebook tool, such a RENAME would be a mistake. We must first block writes to the modified table, then make sure we have iterated the changelog table to the point of lock, apply those changes onto the ghost table, and only then do the swap.
The problem is: you cannot RENAME TABLES while one of them is LOCKed.
This is silly, and inconsistent, because:
> LOCK TABLES tbl WRITE; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) > RENAME TABLE tbl TO tbl_old, tbl_new TO tbl; ERROR 1192 (HY000): Can't execute the given command because you have active locked tables or an active transaction > ALTER TABLE tbl RENAME TO tbl_old; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Why would the RENAME fail where the ALTER works?
Small thing, but critical to the operation of the online-schema-change. From the Facebook OSC documentation:
Since alter table causes an implicit commit in innodb, innodb locks get released after the first alter table. So any transaction that sneaks in after the first alter table and before the second alter table gets a 'table not found' error. The second alter table is expected to be very fast though because copytable is not visible to other transactions and so there is no need to wait.
It means for a very brief duration, the table is not there. Your app will get errors.
Of course, we should be able to handle errors anytime, aywhere. But the honest truth is: we (as in the world) do not. Many apps will fail ungracefully should they get a table not found error.
An atomic swap, as compared, would make for briefly blocking operations, making the app ignorant of the swap.
Rumor has it that we at GitHub are developing a new, triggerless, Online Schema Change tool. It is rumored to be based off binary logs and is rumored to have lots of interesting rumored implications.
Such rumored implementation would have to be asynchronous by nature, or so rumors say. And as such, it would fall for the same non-atomic table swap problem.
Once we heard it was rumored we were working on a triggerless online schema change tool, we realized we would have to solve the non-atomic swap problem. What we did was to gossip about it in between ourselves, which led to three different rumors of a solution, eventually manifested as three different working solutions. All three solutions make for blocking queries on the app's side. I will present one of these solution here, based on voluntary locks.
The idea is to make a table locked without actually issuing a LOCK TABLE statement, such that we would be able to run a RENAME TABLE operation, that would wait until we say it's good to complete.
Let's assume:
We issue the following, in this order:
SELECT GET_LOCK('ding', 0);
Lock acquired, no problems
SELECT RELEASE_LOCK('ding') FROM tbl WHERE GET_LOCK('ding', 999999)>=0 LIMIT 1;
Ignore the RELEASE_LOCK for now, this is merely cleanup. The query attempts to read one row from tbl where GET_LOCK('ding')>=0. But 'ding' is locked, hence the entire query blocks.
Otherwise, other queries on tbl (both reads and writes) are running fine.
RENAME TABLE tbl TO tbl_old, tbl_new TO tbl;
Now the magic begins. The RENAME operation cannot proceed while queries are executing on tbl. In particular, it waits on #2 to complete. But #2 is blocked on #1, so it does not complete. Our RENAME is also blocked!
There are further two consequences that work to our advantage:
SELECT RELEASE_LOCK('ding');
Ding! Connection #2 gets released, reads some row from tbl (but no one is actually interested in the result set) and completes. The #3 RENAME is not blocking on anything anymore. It executes. The tables are swapped. Once they are swapped, any INSERT|UPDATE|DELETEs that were pending on tbl are released and App is unblocked.
The atomic swap is complete.
Agony. This workaround is agonizing. Is agonization a word? By rumor written in Go, our OSC has this implemented via goroutines, and the code is one of those atrocities you are ashamed to look at. Well, it's OK under the circumstances. But really, implementing this is painful, and actually more complicated than the above description. Why is that?
In the above we make fro two blocking operations: #2 and #3. We must not proceed to #3 before #2 is applied, and we must not proceed to OSC completion before #3 is applied. But how does our code know that it's being blocked? If it's being blocked, it can't tell me anything, because it's blocked. If it's not blocked yet, it can tell me it's not blocked yet, but I'm really interested in knowing the time it gets blocked.
But preferably the exact time, or near exact, because one we start blocking, App suffers. Connections accumulate. We really want to make the swap as quick as possible (and by rumor we have a rollback & retry mechanism for this operation if it exceeds X seconds).
Unfortunately the solution involves polling. That is, Once we issue #2 (asynchronously, right? It's blocking), we aggressively poll SHOW PROCESSLIST and look for that blocked query. And the same for #3. Polling is a form of necessary ugliness in this flow.
Other solutions
The other two solutions do not use a voluntary lock. Instead:
We leave the implementation as an exercise for the reader.
Yeah. That's what the Facebook people said. "Hey, we can just fix this".
Should connection #1 or connection #2 die unexpectedly before we are satisfied the events have all been applied, the `RENAME` gets unblocked due to the collapse of locks, and we end up with a premature swap of the tables, potentially before we have applied the latest entries from the changelog table. This was noted by my colleague Gillian Gunson, and we keep looking into this.]]>
The 2016 community awards were presented on April 21st, 2016, during the keynotes at the Percona Live conference. The winners are:
Congrats to all winners!
Special thanks
Thank you to this year's anonymous sponsor for donating the goblets!
Thank you to Colin Charles for acquiring and transporting the goblets!
The MySQL Community Awards is a community based initiative. The idea is to publicly recognize contributors to the MySQL ecosystem. The entire process of discussing, voting and awarding is controlled by an independent group of community members, typically based of past winners or their representatives, as well as known contributors.
It is a self-appointed, self-declared, self-making-up-the-rules-as-it-goes committee. It is also very aware of the importance of the community; a no-nonsense, non-political, adhering to tradition, self criticizing committee.
The Call for Nominations is open. We are seeking the community's assistance in nominating candidates in the following categories:
This is a personal award; a winner would a person who has made contribution to the MySQL ecosystem. This could be via development, advocating, blogging, speaking, supporting, etc. All things go.
An application, project, product etc. which supports the MySQL ecosystem by either contributing code, complementing its behaviour, supporting its use, etc. This could range from a one man open source project to a large scale social service.
A company who made contribution to the MySQL ecosystem. This might be a corporate which released major open source code; one that advocates for MySQL; one that help out community members by... anything.
For a list of previous winners, please see MySQL Hall of Fame.
Anyone can nominate anyone. When nominating, please make sure to provide a brief explanation on why the candidate is eligible to get the award. Make a good case!
The committee will review all nominations and vote; it typically takes two rounds of votes to pick the winners, and a lot of discussion.
There will be up to three winners in each category.
Methods of nomination:
Please submit your nominations no later than Monday, February 29, 2016.
Members of the committee are:
Jeremy Cole and myself (Shlomi Noach) are acting as co-secretaries; we will be non-voting (except for breaking ties).
The committee communicates throughout the nomination and voting process to exchange views and opinions.
Awards are traditionally donated by some party whose identity remains secret. We are now securing the donation, but if you feel an urgent need to be an anonymous donator, please contact us in private, and thank you!
This is a community effort; we ask for your support in spreading the word and of course in nominating candidates. Thanks!]]>
I will have the privilege of working on this open source solution in GitHub. There are a few directions we can take orchestrator to, and we will be looking into the possibilities. We will continue to strengthen the crash recovery process, and in fact I've got a couple ideas on drastically shortening Pseudo-GTID recovery time as well as other debts. We will look into yet other directions, which we will share. My new and distinguished team will co-work on/with orchestrator and will no doubt provide useful and actionable input.
Orchestrator continues to be open for pull requests, with a temporal latency in response time (it's the Holidays, mostly).
Some Go(lang) limitations (namely the import path, I'll blog more about it) will most probably imply some changes to the code, which will be well communicated to existing collaborators.
Most of all, we will keep orchestrator a generic solution, while keeping focus on what we think is most important - and there's some interesting vision here. Time will reveal as we make progress.
I'd like to thank the many kind, friendly & smart people I've worked with at Booking.com!
The challenges at Booking.com are big. There is such a diversity within the technology stack; even within the database range. A solution that works on all the various Booking.com production environments is something to value. Indeed, the Booking.com Production environment it is an amazing playground for developers, offering high volume, large numbers, and differing workloads to tackle. Your code just gets hammered down and you get very quick feedback on whether you did it right or wrong.
I was happy to have worked on serious reliability and operational topics, and to have made a meaningful contribution.
Joining GitHub, I'm to be a systems engineer in a great team (friends included), building great products, in and around the database zone, delivering open source, pretty much expecting to do awesome stuff! That, and the swag.]]>
A couple solutions offered below. First, though, let's get some names.
There's an awesome tool on http://github.com/awsome-org/tool. You successfully fork it onto http://github.com/awesome-you/tool.
You want to collaborate on http://github.com/awesome-you/tool; you wish to pull, commit & push. Maybe you want to send pull requests to the origin.
The following is commonly found throughout .go files in the repository:
import ( "github.com/awesome-org/tool/config" "github.com/awesome-org/tool/driver" "github.com/awesome-org/tool/net" "github.com/awesome-org/tool/util" )
If you:
go get http://github.com/awesome-you/tool
golang creates your $GOPATH/src/github.com/awesome-you/tool/, which is awesome. However, as you resolve dependencies via
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/awesome-you/tool/ ; go get ./...
golang digs into the source code, finds references to github.com/awesome-org/tool/config, github.com/awesome-org/tool/driver etc, and fetches those from http://github.com/awsome-org/tool and onto $GOPATH/src/github.com/awesome-org/tool/, which is not awesome. You actually have two copies of the code, one from your fork, one from the origin, and your own fork will be largely ignored as it mostly points back to the origin.
The dirty, bad solution would be for you to go over the source code and replace "github.com/awesome-org/tool" entries with "github.com/awesome-you/tool". It is bad for two reasons:
When I say "You will not be able" I mean "in a reasonable, developer-friendly manner". The code will be incompatible with upstream and you have effectively detached your code. You will need to keep editing and re-editing those entries anytime you wish to pull/push upstream.
Described in GitHub and Go: forking, pull requests, and go-getting, follow these procedures:
go get http://github.com/awesome-org/tool git remote add awesome-you-fork http://github.com/awesome-you/tool
You're adding your repository as remote. You will from now on need to explicitly:
git pull --rebase awesome-you-fork git push awesome-you-fork
If you forget to add the "awesome-you-fork" argument, you are pulling and pushing from upstream.
The problem began with the go get command, which copied the URI path onto $GOPATH/src. However go get implicitly issues a git clone, and we can do the same ourselves. We will dirty our hands just once, and then benefit from an ambiguous-less environment.
We will now create our git repository in the name of awesome-org but with the contents of awesome-you:
cd $GOPATH mkdir -p {src,bin,pkg} mkdir -p src/github.com/awesome-org/ cd src/github.com/awesome-org/ git clone email@example.com:awesome-you/tool.git # OR: git clone https://github.com/awesome-you/tool.git cd tool/ go get ./...
The mkdir -p {src,bin,pkg} is there just in case you do not have anything setup in your $GOPATH. We then create the repository path under the name of awesome-org, but once inside clone from awesome-you.
The source code's import path fits your directory layout now, but as you push/pull you are only speaking to your own awesome-you repository.]]>
Booking.com uses many different MySQL topologies, of varying vendors, configurations and workloads: Oracle MySQL, MariaDB, statement based replication, row based replication, hybrid, OLTP, OLAP, GTID (few), no GTID (most), Binlog Servers, filters, hybrid of all the above.
Topologies size varies from a single server to many-many-many. Our typical topology has a master in one datacenter, a bunch of slaves in same DC, a slave in another DC acting as an intermediate master to further bunch of slaves in the other DC. Something like this, give or take:
However as we are building our third data center (with MySQL deployments mostly completed) the graph turns more complex.
Two high availability questions are:
This is not a technical drill down into the solution, but rather on overview of the state. For more, please refer to recent presentations in September and April.
At this time we have:
Pseudo-GTID is in particular used for:
Furthermore, Booking.com is also working on Binlog Servers:
Orchestrator & Pseudo-GTID makes this hybrid topology still resilient:
Otherwise orchestrator already understands pure Binlog Server topologies and can do master promotion. When pure binlog servers topologies will be in production orchestrator will be there to watch over.
To date, Pseudo-GTID has high scores in automated failovers of our topologies; orchestrator's holistic approach makes for reliable diagnostics; together they reduce our dependency on specific servers & hardware, physical location, latency implied by SAN devices.]]>
We have a binlog reader (uses open-replicator) running on a slave. It expects Row Based Replication, hence our slave runs with log-slave-updates, binlog-format='ROW', to translate from the master's Statement Based Replication. The binlog reader reads what it needs to read, audits what it needs to audit, and we're happy.
In such case we need to be able to point our binlog reader to another slave, and it needs to be able to pick up auditing from the same point.
This sounds an awful lot like slave repointing in case of master/intermediate master failure, and indeed the solutions are similar. However our binlog reader is not a real MySQL server and does not understands replication. It does not really replicate, it just parses binary logs.
We're also not using GTID. But we are using Pseudo-GTID. As it turns out, the failover solution is already built in by orchestrator, and this is how it goes:
Our binlog app reads entries from the binary log. Some are of interest for auditing purposes, some are not. An occasional Pseudo-GTID entry is found, and is being stored to ZooKeeper tagged as "last seen and processed Pseudo-GTID".
We recognize the death of a slave; we have other slaves in the pool; we pick another. Now we need to find the coordinates from which to carry on.
We read our "last seen and processed Pseudo-GTID". Say it reads:
drop view if exists `meta`.`_pseudo_gtid_hint__asc:56373F17:00000000012B1C8B:50EC77A1`
. We now issue:
$ orchestrator -c find-binlog-entry -i new.slave.fqdn.com --pattern='drop view if exists `meta`.`_pseudo_gtid_hint__asc:56373F17:00000000012B1C8B:50EC77A1`'
The output of such command are the binlog coordinates of that same entry as found in the new slave's binlogs:
Pseudo-GTID entries are only injected once every few seconds (5 in our case). Either:
In case we plan to repoint our binlog reader to another slave, we can further use orchestrator's power in making an exact correlation between the binlog positions of two slaves. This has always been within its power, but only recently exposed as it own command. We can, at any stage:
$ sudo orchestrator -c correlate-binlog-pos -i current.instance.fqdn.com --binlog=binlog.002011:72656109 -d some.other.instance.fqdn.com
The output is the binlog coordinates in some.other.instance.fqdn.com that exactly correlate with binlog.002011:72656109 in current.instance.fqdn.com
The case of failure of the binlog reader itself is also handled, but is not the subject of this blog post.]]>
I will begin by noting that the project is stated to be pre-production, and so of course none of the below are complaints, but rather food for thought, points for action and otherwise recommendations.
Some functionality of the MaxScale failover is also implemented by orchestrator, which I author. Orchestrator was built in production environments by and for operational people. In this respect it has gained many insights and had to cope with many real-world cases, special cases & Murphy's law cases. This post compares logic, feature set and capabilities of the two where relevant. To some extent the below will read as "hey, I've already implemented this; shame to re-implement the same", and indeed I think that way; but it wouldn't be the first time a code of mine would just be re-implemented by someone else and I've done the same, myself.
I'm describing the solution the way I understood it from the talk. If I'm wrong on any account I'm happy to be corrected via comments below. Edit: please see comment by Dipti Joshi
The idea is that MaxScale operates as a proxy to your topology. You do not connect to your master directly, but rather through MaxScale. Thus, MaxScale acts as a proxy to your master.
The next phase is that MaxScale would also auto-detect master failure, fix the topology for you, promote a new master, and will have your application unaware of all the complexity and without the app having to change setup/DNS/whatever. Of course some write downtime is implied.
Now for some breakdown.
The detection of a dead master, the check by which a failover is initiated, is based on MaxScale not being able to query the master. This calls for some points for consideration:
MaxScale assumes the topology is all MariaDB, and all slaves are using (MariaDB) GTID replication. Well, MaxScale does not actually assumes that. It is assumed so by the MariaDB Replication Manager which MaxScale invokes. But I'm getting ahead of myself here.
MaxScale does not recognize the master by configuration but rather by state. It observes the servers it should observe, and concludes which is the master.
I'm using similar approach in orchestrator. I maintain that this approach works well and opens the Chakras for complex recovery options.
When MaxScale detects failure, it invokes external scripts to fix the problem. There are some similar and different particulars here as compared to orchestrator, and I will explain what's wrong with the MaxScale approach:
MaxScale invokes the failover scripts asynchronously. This is a major flaw imho, as the decoupling between the monitoring and acting processes leads to further problems, see further.
MaxScale continuously scans the topology and observes that some other server has been promoted. This behavior is similar to orchestrator's. But the following differences are noteworthy:
I wish to point out that one component of the system analyses a failure scenario, and another one fixes it. I suggest this is an undesired design. The "fixer" must have its own ability to diagnose problems as it makes progress (or else it is naive and would fail in many production cases). And the "analyzer" part must have some wisdom of its own so as to suggest course of action; or understand the consequences of the recovery done by the "fixer".
Generally speaking, the use of shell scripts as external hooks is evil:
At this time, orchestrator also uses external hooks. However:
All the above is only available via a single MaxScale server. What happens if it dies?
There is a MaxScale/pacemaker setup I'm aware of. If one MaxScale dies, pacemaker takes charge and starts another on another box.
At a time where MaxScale will be able to load-balance and run on multiple nodes, MariaDB will have to further tackle:
The above are supported by orchestrator. It provides leader election, automated leader promotion, fair recognition of various failure scenarios, picking up a failed recovery from a failed orchestrator. Data is shared by a backend MySQL datastore, and before you shout SPOF, make it Galera/NDB.
Here's an operational use case we had to tackle.
It is still not uncommon to have Statement Based Replication running. And then it is also not uncommon to have one or two slaves translating to Row Based Replication because of:
You just can't promote such a RBR slave on top of SBR slaves; it wouldn't work. Orchestrator is aware of such rules. I still need to integrate this particular consideration into the promotion algorithm.
Likewise, not all your slaves are of same version. You should not promote a newer version slave on top of an older version slave. Again, orchestrator will not allow putting such a topology, and again, I still need to integrate this consideration into the promotion algorithm.
There is a long way for MaxScale failover to go. When you consider the simplest, all-MariaDB-GTID-equal-slaves small topology case, things are kept simple and probably sustainable. But issues like complex topologies, flapping, special slaves, different configuration, high availability, leadership, acknowledgements, and more, call for a more advanced solution.]]>


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I have white ones growing in my backyard. They self sew every year. I don't have any seeds right now, but when they do go to seed, I can collect some for you if you're interested.
Deb That would be great. LMK when you have some and we can mail around the same time.
how do you get other colors? all i ever got was fushia ones out the packs
I've had the white ones self seeding in my back flower bed since the mid 80's. My son planted a pack of seeds when he was young, and they keep coming back! Don't know about other colors, though. Or even what other colors they come in. I've seen packs of the broken color ones, I think they're fuschia and yellow, but never tried them.
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Harzand has already achieved the distinction of ending Dermot Weld's quest to secure victory in the sport's definitive Classic at Epsom.
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Harzand has already achieved the distinction of ending Dermot Weld's quest to secure victory in the sport's definitive Classic at Epsom.
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Rookie trainer Joseph O'Brien can't stop sending out the winners and he teamed up with brother Donnacha at Leopardstown last night to upstage their father Aidan in the juvenile maiden over a mile.
Saturday's Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby has been dealt a hammer blow with Aidan O'Brien revealing that the odds-on favourite US Army Ranger will miss the Curragh Classic.
Willie Mullins has yet to get off the mark for the Flat season but is napped to do so with Buzz Off Barroso at Leopardstown tonight.
The insatiable Dermot Weld-Pat Smullen axis can continue its rampaging form by plundering the Oaks trial at Naas tonight with Discipline.
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