Measuring the popularity of the Percona MySQL build
I have a Google Alert on “percona”. (And many other things — great way to keep tabs on competitors, what people are saying about you, etc.)
I’ve been seeing increasing amounts of this type of thing:
MySQL server version: 5.0.67-percona-3 CATEGORY QUERY: SELECT wp_term_taxonomy.count as ‘count’, wp_terms.term_id, wp_terms.name, wp_terms.slug, wp_term_taxonomy.parent, wp_term_taxonomy.description FROM wp_terms, wp_term_taxonomy WHERE …
Go to the page in question (sorry, I won’t link it) and you don’t see “percona” anywhere on it. View the source and you do. It’s WordPress debugging output.
I’m glad to see the anecdotal evidence of more and more active use of the Percona server builds, but at the same time, it’s kind of like finding out that your best friend made it onto the Jerry Springer Show. Sometimes I think WordPress makes things too easy for novices.
Any insight as to why you won’t link it?
I did a Google search for what you wrote, and all I get is an “arts round up” blog, and of course the 100 zillion places that this very blog is fed to.
Without any reason from you, the reader is left to guess as to why you refuse to link to someone who is using a Percona build. Seems odd, wouldn’t you want people to see that the Percona build works well behind an application like WordPress? The content doesn’t look offensive, and I don’t see you as someone who’s against the arts.
And how did WordPress make it easy to use the Percona build? Didn’t you do that yourself by making binaries?
Sheeri Cabral
19 Feb 09 at 3:33 pm
What I mean is — they are running some WordPress software or plugin that’s printing debugging information, including a lot more than just queries — I don’t want to link to them for their own protection. Just like I wouldn’t link to some site and say “look, you can do SQL injection here.”
My comment about WordPress is that people are writing templates, plugins etc without really having the background they need to write secure, high-quality code. It’s just so easy to do, that a lot of people can do it. It’s like Visual Basic in a way.
Xaprb
19 Feb 09 at 4:02 pm
PS: They are probably running on BlueHost or one of the other hosting providers that uses the Percona builds.
Xaprb
19 Feb 09 at 4:04 pm
Ah — just goes to show why insight is so important. What did they say when you contacted them to let them know that they had a lot of debugging information that might not be so secure?
Sheeri Cabral
19 Feb 09 at 4:39 pm
No reply.
Xaprb
19 Feb 09 at 6:17 pm