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[Jonas Oreland <jonaso@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Would it make sense to build a memcache plugin on top of the handler
interface rather directly into innodb ?
That way it "just work" for any storage engine.

/Jonas

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Piotr Jurkiewicz <
piotr.jerzy.jurkiewicz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> My name is Piotr Jurkiewicz. I am a last year MSc student at AGH
> University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. I already
> contributed to MySQL InnoDB Memcached plugin. I know it well, from user and
> developer points of view.
>
> I have been using MySQL InnoDB Memcached plugin since half year in a
> production system I administrate at my university. However, I must admit
> that quality of this plugin is rather poor. I have run several times into
> bugs, from the simple ones, like incorrect results of arithmetic
> operations, to the serious, like crashes of the whole MySQL process. I
> reported some of these bugs to Oracle and contributed patches fixing them
> [1] [2]. However, the more I was diving into the plugin code, the more I
> was realizing that the problem is not only buggy code and insufficient
> testing. The core mistakes had been made at the very beginning, when plugin
> architecture was set up. The most prominent result of these mistakes is
> lack of access security. After connecting to Memcached port, a user has
> access to all databases and tables exported by the plugin. Fixing this
> would require complete remodeling of plugin architecture and the way users
> configure and use it. This is not possible in MySQL, as it would break
> existing deployments.
>
> Therefore, I was very excited, when I saw that porting of InnoDB Memcached
> plugin is among MariaDB proposed GSoC ideas. This gives a possibility to
> build the plugin in a proper way. During the last months I have been
> thinking a lot how this plugin should be structured. I think I worked out a
> clear concept of that. With the financing from Google I will be able to
> dedicate sufficient amount of time for its implementation, what should
> result in fully featured, secure and robust Memcached plugin for MariaDB.
>
> You can review current version of my proposal in the Google Melange
> system: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/
> student/google/gsoc2015/piotrjurkiewicz/5743522325987328
>
> As for now, it is only visible for MariaDB organization members, who are
> registered in Melange system. On March 27th, after student application
> deadline, I will make it visible for non-registered users as well and send
> its copy to this list.
>
> I am waiting for your remarks and hints.
>
> [1]: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=74874
> [2]: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=75864
>
> Piotr
>
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