Comments on: News flash: MySQL 5.1 has zero bugs http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/ Stay curious! Fri, 10 May 2013 18:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/#comment-14677 Xaprb Fri, 30 May 2008 11:55:44 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/#comment-14677 For those who don’t click through to look at the bug report, it was reported in 2003.

]]> By: Michael Widenius http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/#comment-14676 Michael Widenius Fri, 30 May 2008 11:18:02 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/#comment-14676 “There were zero customer reported unfixed P1 bugs in the 5.1 RC at the time I spoke with the reporter”
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This is not the full truth. We have a lot of P1 bugs reported by customers in 5.1 RC, and we have had them a long time. The problem with these are that some of them have been declared to be hard to fix and have thus been moved to be fixed in 6.0, just to get out 5.1 sooner.

As an example of a bug that has been reported by several customers and which I personally think *should* be fixed in 5.1 is: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=989.
This bug is likely to hit most high performance sites that uses replications sooner or later and it also allows anyone with full access to one replicated database, like the test database, to take down all slaves.

What Zack probably meant was P1 bugs reported by customers that we plan to fix before 5.1 is released.

]]> By: Peter Zaitsev http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/#comment-14626 Peter Zaitsev Wed, 21 May 2008 05:17:21 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/#comment-14626 Baron, Zack

Note the quote from true Marketing Expert
“there were zero customer reported unfixed P1 bugs in the 5.1 RC at the time I spoke with the reporter.”

So this applies to the given moment in time. It applies to customer reporting bugs only (so user reported bugs do not count) and of course it is P1 only.

:)

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/#comment-14569 Xaprb Fri, 16 May 2008 01:54:22 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/#comment-14569 Zach, I figured you were misquoted like that. Thanks for writing in.

]]> By: ZUrlocker http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/#comment-14566 ZUrlocker Thu, 15 May 2008 19:28:38 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/05/02/news-flash-mysql-51-has-zero-bugs/#comment-14566 Since, I’m the guy who got quoted, let me tell you what I really told eWeek. I said that there were zero customer reported unfixed P1 bugs in the 5.1 RC at the time I spoke with the reporter.

All non-trivial software has bugs, but my point was that the RC release is looking pretty good. And of course, it all depends on the inflow of bugs. So if folks want to test out the latest 5.1 RC and find bugs, that would be helpful. Better if we find them sooner rather than later and we always appreciate the help.

Sorry it took a while to respond to this posting; I was on vacation at the time.

–Zack

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