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Re: Segmented Key Cache - About section

 

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Igor Babaev <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Henrik Ingo wrote:
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Igor Babaev <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 1. the author of the original patch
>>> 2. our community members (not only PeterZ!)
>>> 3. our developers
>>>
>>> what term they prefer 'Segmented Key Cache' or 'Partitioned Key Cache'.
>>>
>>> To be quite honest I also should mention that MichaelR from Oracle/MySQL
>>> introduced in 5.5 a possibility for MySQL partitions in MyISAM to use
>>> different key caches for different partitions. Before that all
>>> partitions could use only default key caches. This feature is 100%
>>> orthogonal to the discussed key cache partitioning.
>>
>> This was the only reason for the rename. (It is also the reason the
>> rename was done after the implementation, and very fast, because we
>> had to decide on a name before Monty's keynote.)
> Henrik,
>
> Look at Monty's keynote slide #12: it calls the feature clearly
> "Partitioned Key Cache" (see
> http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2010/public/schedule/detail/12443)
> BTW, the slides were prepared NOT by me.

Heh, I'm trying to remember how did this happen...? The whole point of
the rename was to change it in the slides and talk. We must have been
very tired by that point then...

So now what?


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