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MySQL 5.6 through the eyes of a custom storage engine MySQL plugin

MySQL is famous for its pluggable storage engine architecture which allows a DBA or an application developer to choose the right engine for the task. An application uses MySQL API and is isolated from all of the low-level implementation details at the storage level. As an example, the Cloud Storage Engine (ClouSE) enables existing MySQL applications to use cloud storage such as Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage to store its data. The application doesn’t need to be changed or even redeployed: with ClouSE, remote cloud storage will look like a better (ultra-scalable, durable, always-on) alternative to the local storage.

As you may already know, ClouSE now supports MySQL 5.6 release series.  See this announcement for more detail. Let’s go through the set of changes that were required on the ClouSE side in order to keep up with core MySQL 5.6 changes.

We had to adapt our code to compile and work with MySQL 5.6 while keeping 100% compatibility with MySQL 5.5. As much as we could, we tried to fix the code in a way that would work with both release series, but there are cases where the code has to be conditionally compiled for each release series.

Here is the list of MySQL 5.6 breaking changes and our solutions, in no particular order.

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