Comments on: Creating a MySQL plugin to produce an integer timestamp http://www.clusterdb.com/mysql/creating-a-mysql-plugin-to-produce-an-interger-timestamp/ MySQL Cluster database & MySQL Replication Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:05:11 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://www.clusterdb.com/mysql/creating-a-mysql-plugin-to-produce-an-interger-timestamp/comment-page-1/#comment-533 admin Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:26:47 +0000 http://www.clusterdb.com/?p=451#comment-533 Hi Mark, a fair point - I'm using this for a proof of concept rather than for a commercial system and so I can afford to be relaxed about robustness. Some hardening might be required for a real deployment. Regards, Andrew. Hi Mark,

a fair point – I’m using this for a proof of concept rather than for a commercial system and so I can afford to be relaxed about robustness. Some hardening might be required for a real deployment.

Regards, Andrew.

]]> By: Mark Callaghan http://www.clusterdb.com/mysql/creating-a-mysql-plugin-to-produce-an-interger-timestamp/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Mark Callaghan Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:47:53 +0000 http://www.clusterdb.com/?p=451#comment-506 Very nice, but you ignore the possible error return value from gettimeofday. I have used versions of Linux on which it occasionally failed. Very nice, but you ignore the possible error return value from gettimeofday. I have used versions of Linux on which it occasionally failed.

]]> By: Joseph Piché http://www.clusterdb.com/mysql/creating-a-mysql-plugin-to-produce-an-interger-timestamp/comment-page-1/#comment-502 Joseph Piché Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:15:54 +0000 http://www.clusterdb.com/?p=451#comment-502 Great post. I recently dealt with something like this myself, and I opted for creating a trigger that grabbed the UNIX_TIMESTAMP of a TIMESTAMP field which was automatically filled on insert. A bit ugly, but it worked. Great post. I recently dealt with something like this myself, and I opted for creating a trigger that grabbed the UNIX_TIMESTAMP of a TIMESTAMP field which was automatically filled on insert. A bit ugly, but it worked.

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