2013-10-04

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.0 of its popular multi-instance MySQL Environment MyEnv.

Thanks to the countless feedback of many big customers and the community we finally feel ready to publish version 1.0. A major step forward from the last version 0.4 (dated March 2011) and not published version 0.5 (dated August 2013).

What is MyEnv?

MyEnv is a CLI environment for operating multiple MySQL instances on the same server. If you are using mysqld_multi or/and if you have set-up multiple mysqld instances on the same machine you should really have a look at MyEnv.

If you consider to consolidate your MySQL databases on one machine but if you do not want to pack everything in one instance you are a candidate for MyEnv as well...

You can download MyEnv from here.

In the inconceivable case that you find a bug in MyEnv please report it in our Bugtracker.

Any feedback, statements and testimonials are welcome as well! Please send them to feedback@fromdual.com.

Upgrade from 0.x to 1.0

Package php-posix needs to be installed.

If the following manual steps are too complicated just run the installer installMyEnv.sh and copy your old myenv.conf to /etc/myenv.

Changes in MyEnv 1.0

MyEnv

cd abc xyz alias failed when one of the patterns contained a space. This is fixed now (Bug #10).

Different smaller bug fixes.

timezone added to MyEnv to avoid nasty error messages.

Old path in PATH variables should be cleaned-up properly now.

Incompatible Change: DEBUG variables replaced by MYENV_DEBUG.

MyEnv start/stop script (myenv_start_stop.php) accepts as parameter and instance name now (customer enhancement request).

hideschema parameter implemented for myenv.conf (customer enhancement request).

Default section is now configurable in section [default] (customer enhancement request).

Better support for Percona Server (customer enhancement request).

Readline support added for set-ups not having it by default (customer enhancement request).

cdb alias added for cd $basedir or cd $MYSQL_HOME.

Security check for my.cnf introduced.

Password was shown in clear text in error log (Bug #12).

tmp directory is added to MyEnv structure.

unknown version fixed.

Made hideschema variable inheritable.

Parameter drizzle and type removed. De-support for Drizzle.

The utl directory should be added to the PATH as well.

Add Path to the right of PATH is fixed now.

Possibility to start mysqld without angel process (mysqld_safe) now.

/tmp/myEnv.xxx files where not removed. This is fixed now.

5.6.12 as version pattern is now accepted (customer request).

Incompatible Change: Configuration file (myenv.conf) is now relocated from $MYENV_HOME/etc to /etc/myenv.

MySQL stop functionality was changed from mysqladmin shutdown to kill (MySQL like).

my.cnf privilege check is less restrictive now (rwxr-----).

MyEnv Installer

Many bug fixes and improvements for MyEnv Installer.

Incompatible Change: MyEnv Installer rewritten, renamed (bin/installMyEnv.php) and code cleaned-up.

MySQL database can now be created in installer.

Check for mysql user is added to installer.

Missing mysql_install_db is caught.

Missing socket error is caught.

Only a stopped database can be deleted.

Configuration files are versioned when changed.

Delete process more user-friendly.

Missing basedir and datadir variables in my.cnf fixed.

Privileges of my.cnf file set correctly to avoid warning later.

Not existing my.cnf file caught.

Selection characters made more intuitive.

Empty my.cnf string caught.

Installer is aware of missing environment variables.

Start/stop instance parameter was added in installer.

MyEnv Utilities

Row Extractor (utl/row_extractor.pl) to extract rows from corrupt tables (leading to a DB crash) added.

Script to flush Query Cache regularly (utl/flush_query_cache.sh) added.

Script to find last access to tables (utl/filesystem_table.php) added.

MySQL Backup Manager (mysql_bman) added.

Script to do a NDB Cluster channel fail-over (utl/channel_failover.pl) added.

README about MyEnv utilities usage updated (utl/README).

Compare script to compare two GLOBAL STATUS outputs added (utl/compare.php).

Rotate log script to rotate different MySQL logs added (utl/rotate_log.sh).

Script to convert \G output of MySQL client to one-line output added (utl/backslashG2table.pl).

alter_engine.sh script improved by a Perl version (for windows customer) (utl/alter_engine.pl).

Different resources, configuration files and monitors added for Heartbeat v1/v2: (utl/{stop-heartbeat.alert|ping.monitor|node.monitor|mysql.monitor|mail.alert|Crontab|canias}, etc/{drbd.conf.template|ha.cf.template|mon.cf.template|my.cnf.template}).)

Slave Monitor added (utl/{slave_monitoring.php|slave_monitor.php}).

DRBD Monitor added (utl/check_drbd.sh).

MySQL Profiler added (utl/profiler/{profiler.pl|tracer.pl}).

split_partition.php and drop_partition.php scripts added (utl/{split_partition.php|drop_partition.php}).

Insert test added (utl/{insert_test.sh|insert_test.phpx}). Shell script is for connection testing. PHP script is more for INSERT load testing...

Utility mem_map.pl added (utl/mem_map.pl).

Start/stop script for VIP added (utl/vip).

Script to fix wrong encoding added (utl/fix_encoding.php).

Alter Engine script enhanced with MySQL 5.6 and Galera features.

Ping Log utility added (utl/ping_log.sh).

Script added to block MySQL port so Load Balancer recognizes if Galera Cluster node is away (utl/block_galera_node.sh, customer request).

Create table statement for test.test table for insert_test.* added as comment to the script.

MySQL Backup Manager (mysql_bman)

Several bugs fixed and improvements.

Schema dump implemented now (customer enhancement request).

Backup is now possible with MySQL 5.5 as well (Bug #31).

All parameters can now be put in the configuration file.

Configuration file is now more dynamic.

Archive job fixed.

Configuration backup fixed.

Xtrabackup wrapper added.

Empty schema option defaults now to all databases.

Per schema backup should not contain drop/create database.

Have fun,

The FromDual Consulting Team

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