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Changes from mod_ndb 1.0 rc to mod_ndb 1.0 release

Release 1.0 includes the following changes since 1.0-rc:

• (r465) The t.sql utility in the test suite would hang ( "test.list" was not supplied).
• (r480) Fix error exit in "configure" to indicate which option was bad.
• (r485) Fix to runner.awk in the test suite -- awk substrings start at 1, not 0.
• (r491) Fix undefined symbol with Apache 1.3 ( issue #56 )

NEWS: mod_ndb gets a SQL parser

So far, mod_ndb has been limited by what can be specified in one-line Apache configuration directives. But now it supports "N-SQL," which looks a lot like SQL. It is not any more powerful than the old-style configuration -- it doesn't have an optimizer, it can't do joins, and it requires you to tell it which indexes to use -- but probably does allow for more succinct and intuitive configuration of HTTP endpoints.

Notes on the 'rev 320' release

• This release comes a few days before the 2007 MySQL Conference, and it's the basis for my talk there.
• It includes user-defined output formats.
• There's a new 'Quick Reference Card' PDF file in the distribution.

New mailing list

I created a general discussion list -- you can join it by following the 'Groups' link on this page.

Notes on the 'rev 284' release

• This release adds support for many MySQL data types, including decimal, tinyint, smallint, mediumint, date, time, and datetime
• Internally, the architecture of mod_ndb's output formats has changed, as a first step towards allowing user-defined formats.

Notes on the 'rev 254' release

• See the mod_ndb wiki over at MySQL Forge for documentation.
• This one compiles properly with MySQL 5.1.16.
• It introduces rudimentary XML output, plus correct encoding of escaped characters (quote and backslash) in both XML and JSON.
• It introduces support for table scans.
• After you build the module, 'vi test.conf' + 'make start' should succesfully start the server now on many more platforms than before.