Tag: MariaDB 13.1
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MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: Validate Your Configuration Before Starting the Server
Have you ever modified a MariaDB configuration file, restarted the service, and immediately regretted it?
You wanted to change:
but accidentally wrote:
One missing letter.
That is enough to turn a perfectly healthy database server into a service that refuses to start.
And of course, this kind of mistake never happens during a quiet maintenance window when everybody is available.
It happens during an automated deployment.It happens during an upgrade.It happens on a remote server.Or it happens just before you […]
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MariaDB 13.1 Feature in Focus: BLOB, TEXT, JSON and GEOMETRY Support in the HEAP Engine
Some contributions improve MariaDB Server by adding new capabilities.
Some go further: they start from a concrete production problem with an existing feature, not a bug, but a design limitation, solve it upstream, and leave the whole ecosystem better off.
This is one of those contributions.
The platform team at Headout, a global platform that helps travelers discover and book curated real-life experiences, encountered a few inefficiencies in MariaDB Server around temporary tables and the HEAP engine. Instead of treating […]