Packt Publishing gave me a copy of MySQL 5.1 Plugins Development to review. The book is written by two people who are MySQL experts -- Sergei Golubchik and Andrew Hutchings. I know Sergei because he answers a lot of my questions on the MySQL Internals mail list. I wasn't in the best mood when I opened the e-book as I worked late last night. My mood was much better after reading a few pages. The book is amazing. The content, presentation and editing are excellent. The book is full of relevant examples that show you how to build plugins including source code and tips on compiling. The text carefully explains all of the steps required to build each of the plugins.
I wish I had this book several years ago. It would have saved me a lot of trouble. But from the quality of the book I suspect that they have been working on it for several years.
Thank you Sergei and Andrew. This is a great addition to the MySQL community.
The target audience for this book is someone who wants to write code that will run within the mysqld process. This includes user defined functions (UDF) to be called by SQL statements, daemon plugins that can run code using a dedicated thread in the server process, information schema plugins to expose data in INFORMATION_SCHEMA, full-text parser plugins and storage engine plugins. There are examples for three storage engines. The first engine is simple and only supports read-only tables. The second example supports read-write tables without indexes and uses HTML as the file format. The final example builds a storage engine using Tokyo Cabinet.
My team has put a lot of things into the mysqld process. Some of those changes were even useful. This book would have prevented us from making a few mistakes. It even has an example to export the output from getrusage via SHOW STATUS. I added a similar patch to MySQL, but I don't think my change was as nice.![]()
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I wish I had this book several years ago. It would have saved me a lot of trouble. But from the quality of the book I suspect that they have been working on it for several years.
Thank you Sergei and Andrew. This is a great addition to the MySQL community.
The target audience for this book is someone who wants to write code that will run within the mysqld process. This includes user defined functions (UDF) to be called by SQL statements, daemon plugins that can run code using a dedicated thread in the server process, information schema plugins to expose data in INFORMATION_SCHEMA, full-text parser plugins and storage engine plugins. There are examples for three storage engines. The first engine is simple and only supports read-only tables. The second example supports read-write tables without indexes and uses HTML as the file format. The final example builds a storage engine using Tokyo Cabinet.
My team has put a lot of things into the mysqld process. Some of those changes were even useful. This book would have prevented us from making a few mistakes. It even has an example to export the output from getrusage via SHOW STATUS. I added a similar patch to MySQL, but I don't think my change was as nice.
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