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["Bernt M. Johnsen" <Bernt.Johnsen@xxxxxxx>]

Den 18/05/10 18:03, skrev Philip Stoev:
> Patrick,
> 
> Bernt has been working on a solution where all logic around each
> database product (including starting, stopping, dumping and diffing) is
> encapsulated into a single object that provides start, crash, dump,
> diff, etc. as methods.
> 
> Bernt, what is the status of this work?

Status is that we're close to start using it (I've been doing collations QA
recently). I've not looked at how to abstract away all mysql dependencies (e.g.
mysqldump), but that's a reasonable extension of the work I've done with the
DBServer object.

Patrick: Are you on some irc where we could have a chat around this?

> 
>>
>> Do you have any thoughts on how to handle this?
>> While it is my responsibility to implement what I need, I also wanted
>> to get
>> your thoughts on how to make this happen as smoothly and unobtrusively as
>> possible.
>>
>> I suppose the main question is whether it would be better to have
>> drizzle-specific scripts that do what we need or if I should try to
>> include
>> some code that determines dump and server start&stop utilities based
>> on the
>> type of DBMS being tested.  For example, I hope to have 2-way compares
>> against MySQL going and that would seem to require using mysqldump and
>> drizzledump depending on the system.
> 
> As far as I know, mysqldump is only required when producing the
> simplified test case -- the 2-way compare should be able to proceed
> without a dump utility. So I assume that you are experiencing issues
> with simplification, and not with running the actual test? Is that so?
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Patrick
>>
> 
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Bernt Marius Johnsen, Staff Engineer
Database Group, Sun Microsystems, Trondheim, Norway

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