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Future InnoDB File Formats

April 16, 2008
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Vadim Tkachenko
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Looking into InnoDB docs I found list of names of future InnoDB file formats: Antelope, Barracuda, Cheetah, Dragon, Elk, Fox, Gazelle, Hornet, Impala, Jaguar, Kangaroo, Leopard, Moose, Nautilus, Ocelot, Porpoise, Quail, Rabbit, Shark, Tiger, Urchin, Viper, Whale, X, Y and Zebra.

Aren’t there animals starting on X and Y?

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zahariash
zahariash
18 years ago

Xiphactinus Audax (one of the largest bony fish of the Late Cretaceous) 😉

Carsten Pedersen
18 years ago

mmm… apparently whoever wrote that isn’t aware that there’s already a database product out there called Ocelot (http://www.ocelot.ca)

mike
18 years ago

Damn, you beat me to “Yak” 🙂

Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs
18 years ago

Indeed, Peter, the early adopter documentation and code (which is very slightly newer than what you tested) did incorporate Xenops and Yak!

Stewart Smith
18 years ago

Yabbie

Kevin Burton
18 years ago

This is kind of obvious but shouldn’t Gazelle have been Gnu?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildebeest

Kevin

Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs
18 years ago

Gnot Gnecessarily!

Besides, Gazelles are fast and beautiful. Gnus … well …

Peter Zaitsev
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18 years ago

Ken,

We should make Posted By more visible – this was done by Vadim 🙂

Jeremy Cole
18 years ago

According to the source, there are animals with X and Y:

/* List of animal names representing file format. */
const char* file_format_name_map[] = {

“Xenops”,
“Yak”,

};

Yaroslav Vorozhko
18 years ago

>We should make Posted By more visible – this was done by Vadim 🙂

At the google reader:
Future InnoDB File Formats
from Planet MySQL author: Peter Zaitsev

At the Planet Mysql:
Future InnoDB File Formats
posted by Peter Zaitsev on Wed 16 Apr 2008 06:59 UTC

So, i also think it was You post. 🙂

Hmm, tt’s very strange, becouse atom show correct author name: Vadim of this post.

Peter Zaitsev
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18 years ago

I’ve asked Jay to change planetmysql.org to show MySQL Performance Blog instead of Peter Zaitsev.

You also can report the bug if it does not passes author information from original feed – there are a lot of blogs by multiple authors.

David Magda
David Magda
18 years ago

Xeme. It’s a type of gull.

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