[Phpmyadmin-devel] about drizzle.dbi.lib.php

[Marc Delisle]

Piotr Przybylski a écrit :
> 2011/11/14 Dieter Adriaenssens <dieter.adriaenssens at gmail.com>:
>> 2011/11/12 Dieter Adriaenssens <dieter.adriaenssens at gmail.com>:
>>> 2011/11/12 Piotr Przybylski <piotr.prz at gmail.com>:
>>>> 2011/11/11 Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info>:
>>>>> Piotr,
>>>>>
>>>>> In this file I read:
>>>>> ================
>>>>> WARNING - EXPERIMENTAL, never use in production, drizzle module
>>>>> segfaults often and when you least expect it to
>>>>>
>>>>> * TODO: This file and drizzle-wrappers.lib.php should be devoid of any
>>>>> segault related hacks.
>>>>>  * TODO: Crashing versions of drizzle module and/or libdrizzle should
>>>>> be blacklisted
>>>>> ================
>>>>>
>>>>> Taking this warning into account, what's your opinion about releasing
>>>>> Drizzle support in 3.5.0?
>>>>>
>>>> Drizzle works well with MySQL protocol, so we can officially support it.
>>>>
>>>> As for Drizzle-specific dbi file, I think it should stay where it is
>>>> and be released. For now undocumented so that people who don't know
>>>> what they are doing don't spam us that Drizzle crashes their server.
>>>> It generally works, but with a little hack that I placed in
>>>> drizzle-wrappers.lib.php (flushing in shutdown function) due to
>>>> Apache/PHP segfaulting after most requests. When somebody fixes PHP
>>>> extension it should be safe to remove all warnings and just use it
>>>> (appropriate bug reports are filed and by now known by Drizzle
>>>> developers [1]).
>> What do you mean by warnings? If someone sets drizzle as connection
>> type, does it show a message on main screen explaining the problem
>> with the php drizzle extension?
> 
> Server logs - with current drizzle PHP extension it will segfault (a
> lot). Our code (drizzle.dbi.lib.php) is stable and working, dedicated
> PHP extension is not.
> 
>> If not, I think we should add an warning/explanation to the
>> Documentation or FAQ explaining the problem and suggesting to use the
>> mysql/mysqli connection type when connecting to a drizzle database,
>> until further notice. This to avoid that if someone tries to use the
>> 'undocumented' drizzle connection type, they don't have a clue why.
> 
> I haven't thought about that - it may be a good solution. I would like
> to support Drizzle using its native PHP extension in next phpMyAdmin
> release, but do it in a way which would make users aware that current
> PHP extension (not our dbi library) is unstable.
> 

Piotr,
which version of the extension did you have problems with?

pecl.php.net offers version 0.4.2.
launchpad offers 0.5.

I guess it's the one on launchpad as you are listed as the top 
contributor :)


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