[openstack-dev] [oslo] Openstack and SQLAlchemy

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 14:06:43 UTC 2014


On 07/08/2014 04:46 AM, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
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> On 07/07/14 22:14, Jay Pipes wrote:
>> On 07/02/2014 09:23 PM, Mike Bayer wrote:
>>> I've just added a new section to this wiki, "MySQLdb + eventlet =
>>> sad", summarizing some discussions I've had in the past couple of
>>> days about the ongoing issue that MySQLdb and eventlet were not
>>> meant to be used together.   This is a big one to solve as well
>>> (though I think it's pretty easy to solve).
>>>
>>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_and_SQLAlchemy#MySQLdb_.2B_eventlet_.3D_sad
>>>
>>
>>>
>> It's eminently solvable.
>>
>> Facebook and Google engineers have already created a nonblocking
>> MySQLdb fork here:
>>
>> https://github.com/chipturner/MySQLdb1
>>
>> We just need to test it properly, package it up properly and get
>> it upstreamed into MySQLdb.
>>
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> I'm not sure whether it will be easy to push upstream to merge those
> patches, or make all distributions to ship a non-official fork in
> place of the original project. For the latter, I even doubt it's
> realistic.

You mean, like shipping MariaDB instead of MySQL?

Oh. Snap.

-jay



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