Ariel as a slow query server - Wikitech-l

22 Jun 2004


      I wrote some code for DB load balancing back in January, but we haven't 
had a slave server to test it on until now. I'm happy to announce that 
it's now running.
Ariel is being used as a slow query server. Currently, it is handling 
watchlist queries and miser mode queries (although only with the magic 
parameter). Selecting which queries to send to Ariel is currently 
ad-hoc, but something more permanent should find its way into CVS in the 
next week or two.
The obvious application for this is enabling full-text search. However 
we still need to rebuild the searchindex table.
-- Tim Starling