Re: Parallel testing mysql-5.1.23-beta-GIS / stable version

[Jason Lee]

Hi,

I've been following the progress of all this for the past year. Right now I have 5.1.30 installed on OSX Leopard. I downloaded the 5.1.23-gis and ran this command from the untar'd directory:

sudo bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql --ledir=$PWD/bin &

This assumes an already installed mysql with the config in /etc/my.cnf and data files existing in /usr/local/mysql/data/

My big thing was testing the 'within' function as I already have an existing stored func (from some other place on this site). Now it's totally correct and *much* faster than the stored func I had in place. Only problem is deploying this as a stable branch. Right now on our production CentOS server we have a 5.1.30 (I think) Percona release. So, dunno what would happen if I dropped this in.

I'll prob run a bunch of tests. The speed of the within function though would *really* speed up a lot of our queries, something our users have complained about.