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Re: will maria db overcome mysqls feature limitations? (foreign keys+triggers, recursive triggers)

 

great! 

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> On Jul 19, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Justin!
> 
>> On Jul 19, Justin Swanhart wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Foreign keys need support in SE to fix the first item.  Cascading
>> operations don't work for triggers, but even worse, they don't work
>> for RBR replication if a) storage engines differ on master and slave
>> or b) the slave lacks the constraints.  This is because InnoDB does
>> cascade operations internally, because the SE interface doesn't
>> support foreign keys, thus the cascade operations only work on the
>> slave if the SE matches and the constraints match.  This basically is
>> a RBR/pseudo-SBR mix that simply doesn't work.
> 
> Right. My first idea was to add some kind of a callback for a storage
> engine to inform the server about cascading operation. Then it could
> fire a trigger.
> 
> We already can fire triggers for low-level row operations, this is used
> in our "RBR triggers" feature:
> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/running-triggers-on-the-slave-for-row-based-events/
> 
> Regards,
> Sergei


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