[development] Drupal performance patches: call for action
Dries Buytaert
dries.buytaert at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 07:47:07 UTC 2007
On 02 Aug 2007, at 01:08, Derek Wright wrote:
> If we're going to use a separate query function for queries that
> can be directed to the read-only DB(s), why not call it something
> like "db_query_read()"? Pardon my ignorance in split DB
> configurations and queries, but are there any read-only queries
> that aren't safe for this? Don't we just have to direct SELECT
> queries one way, and UPDATE or INSERT queries another?
No, that's not a good solution -- we need to more fine-control as per
the explanation at http://buytaert.net/scaling-with-mysql-replication.
In short: read != slave.
> <idea type="crazy">
> Can't we just parse the query and see if it contains any UPDATE or
> INSERT clauses? ;) Why do we need to change the API at all?
> </idea>
Ditto -- not a good solution. See explanation at http://buytaert.net/
scaling-with-mysql-replication.
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