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I guess that means "No, it's an unofficial, third party toolkit".

• ceejayoz 13y ago
  So's jQuery, but that hardly stops me from using it. Unsure as to the point you're trying to make.
  • gtaylor 13y ago
    There is no "point". I asked a question and you didn't answer it directly.
  • Iftheshoefits 13y ago
    For starters, the requirement of a third-party library introduces at least two problems: 1. An additional potential point of failure 2. The core software (a DB, in this case) can (and probably will) evolve independently of the third-party tool--thus introducing an additional layer of maintenance problems. I'd argue further--and this is of course just an opinion--that such a basic feature as this ought to be supported out-of-the-box by anything that claims to call itself a "database" in the sense that MySQL does.
    • oceanplexian 13y ago
      Percona and pt-online-schema-change is not just "some third-party library". It's an industry-standard tool and one of the most respected forks of MySQL. It's not a layer of maintenance problems and they sell commercial support. Their customers include the BBC, Yelp, and Cisco: http://www.percona.com/about-us/customers http://www.percona.com/about-us/customers Also, for the record, Oracle added online schema changes in 5.6.
      • gtaylor 13y ago
        So you actually have to use a fork of MySQL to get online schema changes? I was thinking this was just a drop-in of some sort.