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[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 Feb 2014, at 23:44, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Federico!
> 
> On Feb 05, Federico Razzoli wrote:
>> I just read this news from SkySQL:
>> 
>> http://www.skysql.com/blogs/chriscalender/mariadb-1007-overview-and-highlights
>> 
>> "XtraDB storage engine was upgraded to the 5.6 version. Now one can
>> use XtraDB with MariaDB 10.0. Unlike MariaDB 5.5, in 10.0 XtraDB is
>> not the default engine, the default is InnoDB, and XtraDB is available
>> as a dynamic plugin"
>> 
>> This is confusing to me. When 10.0 is stable, will XtraDB be the
>> default again? If not, can someone summarize the
>> advantages/disadvantages of using XtraDB?
> 
> It is not about advantages and disadvantages at the moment.
> 
> But XtraDB simply does not compile on all our builders - Percona has
> introduced patches that use CPU atomic ops and didn't implement a
> fallback for setups where they are not available (like all the rest of
> the code does, including InnoDB).

Have we reported bugs upstream?
Do we plan on fixing this ourselves if upstream doesn't?

> 
> I hope we'll have XtraDB as the default in 10.0.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergei
> 
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