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Changelog for innotop and InnoDBParser:
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2007-11-09: version 1.6.0
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* S mode crashed on non-numeric values.
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* New user-defined columns crashed upon restart.
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* Added --color option to control terminal coloring.
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2007-09-18: version 1.5.2
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* Added the ability to monitor InnoDB status from a file.
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* Changed W mode to L mode; it monitors all locks, not just lock waits.
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2007-09-16: version 1.5.1
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* Added C (Command Summary) mode.
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* Fixed a bug in the 'avg' aggregate function.
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2007-09-10: version 1.5.0
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* Added plugin functionality.
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* Added group-by functionality.
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* Moved the configuration file to a directory.
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* Enhanced filtering and sorting on pivoted tables.
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* Many small bug fixes.
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2007-07-16: version 1.4.3
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* Added standard --version command-line option
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* Changed colors to cyan instead of blue; more visible on dark terminals.
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* Added information to the filter-choosing dialog.
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* Added column auto-completion when entering a filter expression.
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* Changed Term::ReadKey from optional to mandatory.
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* Clarified username in password prompting.
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* Ten thousand words of documentation!
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* innotop crashed in W mode when InnoDB status data was truncated.
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* innotop didn't display errors in tables if debug was enabled.
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* The colored() subroutine wasn't being created in non-interactive mode.
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* Don't prompt to save password except the first time.
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2007-05-03: version 1.4.2
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This version contains all changes to the trunk until revision 239; some
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changes in revisions 240:250 are included.
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* Quick-filters to easily filter any column in any display
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* Compatibility with MySQL 3.23 through 6.0
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* Improved error handling when a server is down, permissions denied, etc
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* Use additional SHOW INNODB STATUS information in 5.1.x
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* Make all modes use tables consistently, so they can all be edited,
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filtered, colored and sorted consistently
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* Combine V, G and S modes into S mode, with v, g, and s hot-keys
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* Let DBD driver read MySQL option files; permit connections without
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* Compile SQL-like expressions into Perl subroutines; eliminate need to
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* Do not save all config data to config file, only save user's customizations
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* Rewritten and improved command-line option handling
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* Added --count, --delay, and other command-line options to support
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run-and-exit operation
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* Improve built-in variable sets
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* Improve help screen with three-part balanced-column layout
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* Simplify table-editor and improve hotkey support
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* Require Perl to have high-resolution time support (Time::HiRes)
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* Help the user choose a query to analyze or kill
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* Enable EXPLAIN, show-full-query in T mode just like Q mode
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* Let data-extraction access current, previous and incremental data sets
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* Column stabilizing for Q mode
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* New color rules for T, Q, W modes
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* Apply slave I/O filter to Q mode
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* Improve detection of server version and other meta-data
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* Make connection timeout a config variable
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* Improve cross-version-compatible SQL syntax
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* Get some information from the DBD driver instead of asking MySQL for it
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* Improved error messages
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* Improve server group creation/editing
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* Improve connection/thread killing
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* Fix broken key bindings and restore previously mapped hot-keys for
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* Some documentation updates (but not nearly enough)
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* Allow the user to specify graphing char in S mode (formerly G mode)
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* Allow easy switching between variable sets in S mode
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* Bind 'n' key globally to choose the 'next' server connection
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* Bind '%' key globally to filter displayed tables
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* Allow aligning columns on the decimal place for easy readability
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* Add hide_hdr config variable to hide column headers in tables
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* Add a feature to smartly run PURGE MASTER LOGS in Replication mode
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* Enable debug mode as a globally configurable variable
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* Improve error messages when an expression or filter doesn't compile or has
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a run-time error; die on error when debug is enabled
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* Allow user-configurable delays after executing SQL (to let the server
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settle down before taking another measurement)
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* Add an expression to show how long until a transaction is finished
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* Add skip_innodb as a global config variable
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* Add '%' after percentages to help disambiguate (user-configurable)
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* Add column to M mode to help see how fast slave is catching up to master
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* T and W modes had wrong value for wait_status column
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* Error tracking on connections didn't reset when the connection recovered
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* wait_timeout on connections couldn't be set before MySQL 4.0.3
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* There was a crash on 3.23 when wiping deadlocks
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* Lettercase changes in some result sets (SHOW MASTER/SLAVE STATUS) between
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MySQL versions crashed innotop
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* Inactive connections crashed innotop upon access to DBD driver
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* set_precision did not respect user defaults for number of digits
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* --inc command-line option could not be negated
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* InnoDB status parsing was not always parsing all needed information
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* S mode (formerly G mode) could crash trying to divide non-numeric data
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* M table didn't show Slave_open_temp_tables variable; incorrect lettercase
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* DBD drivers with broken AutoCommit would crash innotop
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* Some key bindings had incorrect labels
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* Some config-file loading routines could load data for things that didn't
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* Headers printed too often in S mode
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* High-resolution time was not used even when the user had it
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* Non-interactive mode printed blank lines sometimes
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* Q-mode header and statusbar showed different QPS numbers
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* Formulas for key-cache and query-cache hit ratios were wrong
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* Mac OS "Darwin" machines were mis-identified as Microsoft Windows
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* Some multiplications crashed when given undefined input
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* The commify transformation did not check its input and could crash
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* Specifying an invalid mode on the command line or config file could crash
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2007-03-29: version 1.4.1
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* More tweaks to display of connection errors.
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* Fixed a problem with skip-innodb in MySQL 5.1.
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* Fix a bug with dead connections in single-connection mode.
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* Fix a regex to allow parsing more data from truncated deadlocks.
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* Don't load active cxns from the config file if the cxn isn't defined.
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2007-03-03: version 1.4.0
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* Further tweak error handling and display of connection errors
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* More centralization of querying
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* Fix forking so it doesn't kill all database connections
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* Allow user to run innotop without permissions for GLOBAL variables and status
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2007-02-11: version 1.3.6
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* Handle some connection failures so innotop doesn't crash because of one server.
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* Enable incremental display in more modes.
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* Tweaks to colorizing, color editor, and default color rules.
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* Tweaks to default sorting rules.
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* Use prepared statements for efficiency.
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* Bug fixes and code cleanups.
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* Data storage is keyed on clock ticks now.
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2007-02-03: version 1.3.5
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* More tools for editing configuration from within innotop.
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* Filters and transformations are constrained to valid values.
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* Support for colorizing rows.
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* Sorting by multiple columns.
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* Compress headers when display is very wide.
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* Stabilize and limit column widths.
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* Check config file formats when upgrading so upgrades go smoothly.
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* Make D mode handle many connections at once.
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* Extract simple expressions from data sets in column src property.
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This makes innotop more awk-ish.
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2007-01-16: version 1.3
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* Can be used unattended, or in a pipe-and-filter mode
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where it outputs tab-separated data to standard output.
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* You can specify a config file on the command line.
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Config files can be marked read-only.
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* Monitor multiple servers simultaneously.
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* Server groups to help manage many servers conveniently.
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* Monitor master/slave status, and control slaves.
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* Columns can have user-defined expressions as their data sources.
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* Better configuration tools.
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* InnoDB status information is merged into SHOW VARIABLES and
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SHOW STATUS information, so you can access it all together.
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* High-precision time support in more places.
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* Lots of tweaks to make things display more readably and compactly.
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* Column transformations and filters.
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2007-01-16: version 1.0.1
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* NOTE: innotop is now hosted at Sourceforge, in Subversion not CVS.
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The new project homepage is http://sourceforge.net/projects/innotop/
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* Tweak default T/Q mode sort columns to match what people expect.
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* Fix broken InnoDBParser.pm documentation (and hence man page).
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2007-01-06: version 1.0
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* NOTE: innotop is now hosted at Sourceforge, in Subversion not CVS.
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The new project homepage is http://sourceforge.net/projects/innotop/
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* Prevent control characters from freaking terminal out.
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* Set timeout to keep busy servers from closing connection.
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* There is only one InnoDB insert buffer.
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* Make licenses clear and consistent.
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2006-11-14: innotop 0.1.160, InnoDBParser version 1.69
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* Support for ANSI color on Microsoft Windows (more readable, compact
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display; thanks Gisbert W. Selke).
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* Better handling of $ENV{HOME} on Windows.
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* Added a LICENSE file to the package as per Gentoo bug:
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147600
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2006-11-11: innotop 0.1.157, InnoDBParser version 1.69
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* Add Microsoft Windows support.
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2006-10-19: innotop 0.1.154, InnoDBParser version 1.69
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* Add O (Open Tables) mode
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* Add some more checks to handle incomplete InnoDB status information
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2006-09-30: innotop 0.1.152, InnoDBParser version 1.69
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* Figured out what was wrong with package $VERSION variable: it wasn't
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after the package declaration!
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2006-09-28: innotop 0.1.152, InnoDBParser version 1.67
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* Make more efforts towards crash-resistance and tolerance of completely
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messed-up inputs. If innotop itself is broken, it is now much harder to
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tell, because it just keeps on running without complaining.
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* Fix a small bug parsing out some information and displaying it.
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2006-09-05: innotop 0.1.149, InnoDBParser version 1.64
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* Try to find and eliminate any parsing code that assumes pattern matches
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2006-09-05: innotop 0.1.149, InnoDBParser version 1.62
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* Make innotop crash-resistant, so I can declare it STABLE finally.
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* Instead of using SQL conditional comments, detect MySQL version.
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2006-08-22: innotop 0.1.147, InnoDBParser version 1.60
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* Fix some innotop bugs with undefined values, bad formatting etc.
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2006-08-19: innotop 0.1.146, InnoDBParser version 1.60
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* Make innotop handle some unexpected NULL values in Q mode.
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* Add OS wait information to W mode, so it is now "everything that waits."
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* Center section captions better.
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* Make R mode more readable and compact.
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* Make InnoDBParser parse lock waits even when they've been waiting 0 secs.
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2006-08-12: innotop 0.1.139, InnoDBParser version 1.59
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* Add more documentation
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* Tweak V mode to show more info in less space.
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* Fix a bug in G mode.
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2006-08-10: innotop 0.1.132, InnoDBParser version 1.58
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* Handle yet more types of FK error... it will never end!
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* Handle some special cases when DEADLOCK info truncated
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* Add a bit more FK info to F mode in innotop
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* More tests added to the test suite
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2006-08-07: innotop 0.1.131, InnoDBParser version 1.55
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* Fix another issue with configuration
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* Handle another type of FK error
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2006-08-03: innotop 0.1.130, InnoDBParser version 1.54
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* Fix an issue loading config file
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* Add heap_no to 'D' (InnoDB Deadlock) mode to ease deadlock debugging.
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2006-08-02: innotop 0.1.128, InnoDBParser version 1.54
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* Parse lock wait information from the TRANSACTION section.
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* Even more OS-specific parsing... pain in the butt...
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* Add 'W' (InnoDB Lock Wait) mode.
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* Fix some minor display issues with statusbar.
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2006-08-02: innotop 0.1.125, InnoDBParser version 1.50
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* Don't try to get references to Perl built-in functions like time()
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* Handle more OS-specific variations of InnoDB status text
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* Add some more information to various places in innotop
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2006-08-01: innotop 0.1.123, InnoDBParser version 1.47
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* Enhance S and G modes: clear screen and re-print headers
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* Don't crash when deadlock data is truncated
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* Make Analyze mode say how to get back to whatever you came from
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* Display 'nothing to display' when there is nothing
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* Add ability to read InnoDB status text from a file (mostly helps test)
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* Add table of Wait Array Information in Row Op/Semaphore mode
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* Add table of lock information in InnoDB deadlock mode
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* Ensure new features in upgrades don't get masked by existing config files
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* Tweak default column choices for T mode
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* Enhance foreign key parsing
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* Enhance physical record and data tuple parsing
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* Enhance lock parsing (handle old-style and new-style formats)
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2006-07-24: innotop 0.1.112, InnoDBParser version 1.36
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* InnoDBParser enhancements for FK error messages.
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* A fix to innotop to prevent it from crashing while trying to display a FK
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* Some minor cosmetic changes to number formatting in innotop.
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2006-07-22: innotop 0.1.106, InnoDBParser version 1.35
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* InnoDBParser is much more complete and accurate.
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* Add partitions to EXPLAIN mode.
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* Enhance Q mode header, add T mode header.
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* Share some configuration variables across modes.
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* Add formatted time columns to Q, T modes.
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* Add command-line argument parsing.
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* Turn off echo when asking for password.
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* Add option to specify port when connecting.
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* Let display-optimized-query display multiple notes.
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* Lots of small improvements, such as showing more info in statusbar.
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2006-07-02: innotop 0.1.74, InnoDBParser version 1.24
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* Initial release for public consumption.
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