New Features In MySQL 6.x

It’s now clear that I (Peter Gulutzan) have a few things to do at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara California (Silicon Valley) between April 20 and April 23 2009.

Monday 1:30 pm: This isn’t certain, but I’ll try to attend the “Ask a Guru” session at MySQL Camp.

Wednesday April 22, 9:00 am: I will be one of five panelists in “The MySQL Roadmap Shootout”.

Wednesday April 22, 3:50 pm: My Muscovite colleague Konstantin Osipov and I will show off “New foreign keys in 6.1″.

Thursday April 23, 11:55 am: Konstantin and I will be at the MySQL Camp with “Test Drive MySQL 6.1″.

I’d be happy to participate in a Birds of a Feather (Bof) session, if I get the impression there’s lots of interest, in SQL Standards or Character Sets (especially Japanese) or, of course, Performance Schema. Speaking of Performance Schema, I’m hoping that you’ll see a few slides about it in other people’s talks (Kay Roepke’s, Mark Leith’s), and I’ll be able to demo it for a minute during the “Test Drive MySQL 6.1″ talk.

It’s certain now that Peter Gulutzan will be at the MySQL User Conference, live on stage.

Details within a few days.

I wrote before about SIGNAL and RESIGNAL, and I wrote these worklog tasks that you can see on forge:
WL#2110: Stored Procedures: Implement SIGNAL http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/task.php?id=2110
WL#2265: Stored Procedures: Implement RESIGNAL http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/task.php?id=2265
This is the feature that lets you write your own errors, or change texts in existing error messages.

Today’s news is: my colleague Marc Alff has put the feature in the “main” 6.0 tree. This means it will
be downloadable from source within a few days, and will be part of the next 6.0 binary download.