[mythtv-users] mythtv dropping mysql???

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Oct 21 15:13:51 UTC 2014


On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:47:36PM +1100, Michael Watson wrote:
> On 21/10/2014 12:55 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >And it will be possible for you to access the "full raw data".
> >It's still a MySQL database file.  We're just saying we're not
> >going to make people install the MySQL server to use it.
> 
> If its just going to be an MySQL database file sitting in a folder
> somewhere, then someone could simply point a MySQL Server to that
> file, and really fubar the database if they left the MythDB engine
> running at the same time, maybe file locks will prevent this, but
> where there is a will, there's a way....
> 
> Recently there has been a little bit of chatter about optimising
> MySQL for MythTV, and how much of a difficult task it is, I wonder

   I've found that for my own usage the biggest problem is how my
rules are set up. My rules lead to some really ugly database queries
that really can't be optimized. I have a LOT of those kinds of rules.

   The simplest "tuning" approach just seems to be running the db on
an SSD.

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