This is a new Beta development release, fixing recently discovered bugs in previous MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3 releases.
Obtaining MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3. This is a source-only release, which you must compile and install using the instructions found in Installing MySQL from Source, and in MySQL Cluster Installation and Upgrades. You can download the GPL source tarball from the MySQL FTP site at ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/cluster_telco/.
This Beta release incorporates all bugfixes and changes made in the previous MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3 release, as well as all bugfixes and feature changes which were added in mainline MySQL 5.1 through MySQL 5.1.22 (see Changes in MySQL 5.1.22 (2007-09-24, Release Candidate)).
Please refer to our bug database at http://bugs.mysql.com/ for more details about the individual bugs fixed in this version.
Functionality Added or Changed
Mapping of NDB error codes to MySQL
storage engine error codes has been improved.
(Bug #28423)
Replication; Cluster Replication:
A server status variable ndb_conflict_fn_max
now provides a count of the number of times that conflict
resolution for MySQL Cluster Replication has been applied.
See MySQL Cluster Replication Conflict Resolution, for more information.
Bugs Fixed
Partitioning:
EXPLAIN
PARTITIONS reported partition usage by queries on
NDB tables according to the
standard MySQL hash function than the hash function used in the
NDB storage engine.
(Bug #29550)
Restoring a backup made on a cluster host using one endian to a
machine using the other endian failed for
BLOB and
DATETIME columns.
(Bug #27543, Bug #30024)
The description of the --print option provided
in the output from ndb_restore --help
was incorrect.
(Bug #27683)
Attempting to restore a backup made on a cluster host using one endian to a machine using the other endian could cause the cluster to fail. (Bug #29674)
Errors could sometimes occur during an online ADD
COLUMN under load.
(Bug #31082)
