recently there was a discussion on thewebscalesql mailing list started by chip turner on aproposed change to the max_statement_time patch. this feature has been known asper query variable settings (wl#681) and even shipping in percona server 5.6 asper-query variable statement.

This feature has piqued my interest since 2009, when the MySQL project (then owned by Sun Microsystems)participatedin Google Summer of Code 2009, and we got code from Joseph Lukas to do just that (see his tree on Launchpad - lp:~jlukas79/+junk/mysql-server).

So code has been floating around since 2009. It never made it into a shipping release of any MySQL-based distribution till 24 October 2013 whenPercona Server 5.6.14-62.0was released. Percona’s syntax implementation was as suggested inWL#681. This got me curious as to if a feature is already shipping in a distribution of MySQL, what is the WebScaleSQL answer to things – is there a look at other branches or is compatibility from a user/DBA perspective only with focus on upstream?

I got myanswerfrom Steaphan Greene. Very sensible, and a great direction to see how the companies involved can influence upstream MySQL and quite obviously the downstream distributions. It is of course great to note that this feature will probably be in MySQL 5.7.5 DMR.

For what it’s worth, this feature works well alongside server-side statement timeouts, which Percona Server 5.6 implements (as an alpha quality feature) via the Twitterpatchof Davi Arnaut. The MySQL team at Oracle has of course been listening, and in MySQL 5.7.4 DMR (release notes) they too haveimplemented this feature (WL#6936). Kudos!