- It is possible to use SCI Sockets with any version of MySQL
- Cluster. No special builds are needed because it uses normal
+ No special builds (other than the -max
+ builds) are needed for SCI Sockets because it uses normal TCP/IP
socket calls which are already available in MySQL Cluster.
However, SCI Sockets are currently supported only on the Linux
- 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. SCI Transporters have been tested
- successfully on additional operating systems although we have
- verified these only with Linux 2.4 to date.
+ 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. For other operating systems, you can use
+ SCI Transporters, but this requires that the server be built
+ using .
</para>
- It is possible to use SCI Sockets with any version of MySQL
- Cluster. No special builds are needed because it uses normal
+ No special builds (other than the -max
+ builds) are needed for SCI Sockets because it uses normal TCP/IP
socket calls which are already available in MySQL Cluster.
However, SCI Sockets are currently supported only on the Linux
- 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. SCI Transporters have been tested
- successfully on additional operating systems although we have
- verified these only with Linux 2.4 to date.
+ 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. For other operating systems, you can use
+ SCI Transporters, but this requires that the server be built
+ using .
</para>
+
+ Prior to MySQL 5.0.44, there were issues with building MySQL
+ Cluster with SCI support (see Bug #25470), but these have been
+ resolved due to work contributed by Dolphin International. SCI
+ Sockets are now correctly supported for MySQL Cluster using the
+ -max builds, and versions of MySQL Cluster
+ with SCI Transporter support can be built using either of
+ compile-amd64-max-sci or
+ compile-pentium64-max-sci. Both of these
+ build scripts can be found in the BUILD
+ directory of the MySQL ¤t-series; source; it should not be
+ difficult to adapt them for other platforms.
+
+
<indexterm> MySQL ClusterSCI software requirements
- It is possible to use SCI Sockets with any version of MySQL
- Cluster. No special builds are needed because it uses normal
+ No special builds (other than the -max
+ builds) are needed for SCI Sockets because it uses normal TCP/IP
socket calls which are already available in MySQL Cluster.
However, SCI Sockets are currently supported only on the Linux
- 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. SCI Transporters have been tested
- successfully on additional operating systems although we have
- verified these only with Linux 2.4 to date.
+ 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. For other operating systems, you can use
+ SCI Transporters, but this requires that the server be built
+ using .
</para>
+
+ Prior to MySQL 5.1.20, there were issues with building MySQL
+ Cluster with SCI support (see Bug #25470), but these have been
+ resolved due to work contributed by Dolphin International. SCI
+ Sockets are now correctly supported for MySQL Cluster using the
+ -max builds, and versions of MySQL Cluster
+ with SCI Transporter support can be built using either of
+ compile-amd64-max-sci or
+ compile-pentium64-max-sci. Both of these
+ build scripts can be found in the BUILD
+ directory of the MySQL ¤t-series; source; it should not be
+ difficult to adapt them for other platforms.
+
+
<indexterm> MySQL ClusterSCI software requirements
- It is possible to use SCI Sockets with any version of MySQL
- Cluster. No special builds are needed because it uses normal
+ No special builds (other than the -max
+ builds) are needed for SCI Sockets because it uses normal TCP/IP
socket calls which are already available in MySQL Cluster.
However, SCI Sockets are currently supported only on the Linux
- 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. SCI Transporters have been tested
- successfully on additional operating systems although we have
- verified these only with Linux 2.4 to date.
+ 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. For other operating systems, you can use
+ SCI Transporters, but this requires that the server be built
+ using .
</para>
+
+ In older versions of MySQL, there were issues with building
+ MySQL Cluster with SCI support, but these were resolved due to
+ work contributed by Dolphin International. In MySQL
+ ¤t-series;, SCI Sockets are correctly supported for MySQL
+ Cluster using the -max builds, and versions
+ of MySQL Cluster with SCI Transporter support can be built using
+ either of compile-amd64-max-sci or
+ compile-pentium64-max-sci. Both of these
+ build scripts can be found in the BUILD
+ directory of the MySQL ¤t-series; source; it should not be
+ difficult to adapt them for other platforms.
+
+
<indexterm> MySQL ClusterSCI software requirements