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This appendix lists the developers, contributors, and supporters that have
helped to make MySQL what it is today.
These are the developers that are or have been employed by MySQL AB
to work on the MySQL
database software, roughly in the order they
started to work with us. Following each developer is a small list of the
tasks that the developer is responsible for, or the accomplishments they
have made. All developers are involved in support.
- Michael (Monty) Widenius
-
-
Lead developer and main author of the MySQL server (
mysqld
).
-
New functions for the string library.
-
Most of the
mysys
library.
-
The
ISAM
and MyISAM
libraries (B-tree index file
handlers with index compression and different record formats).
-
The
HEAP
library. A memory table system with our superior full dynamic
hashing. In use since 1981 and published around 1984.
-
The
replace
program (take a look at it, it's COOL!).
-
MyODBC
, the ODBC driver for Windows95.
-
Fixing bugs in MIT-pthreads to get it to work for MySQL Server. And
also Unireg, a curses-based application tool with many utilities.
-
Porting of
mSQL
tools like msqlperl
, DBD
/DBI
, and
DB2mysql
.
-
Most of
crash-me
and the foundation for the MySQL benchmarks.
- David Axmark
-
-
Initial main writer of the Reference Manual,
including enhancements to
texi2html
.
-
Automatic web site updating from the manual.
-
Initial Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool support.
-
Licensing.
-
Parts of all the text files. (Nowadays only the `README' is
left. The rest ended up in the manual.)
-
Lots of testing of new features.
-
Our in-house Free Software legal expert.
-
Mailing list maintainer (who never has the time to do it right...).
-
Our original portability code (more than 10 years old now). Nowadays
only some parts of
mysys
are left.
-
Someone for Monty to call in the middle of the night when he just got
that new feature to work.
-
Chief "Open Sourcerer" (MySQL community relations).
- Jani Tolonen
-
-
mysqlimport
-
A lot of extensions to the command-line clients.
-
PROCEDURE ANALYSE()
- Sinisa Milivojevic
-
-
Compression (with
zlib
) in the client/server protocol.
-
Perfect hashing for the lexical analyser phase.
-
Multi-row
INSERT
-
mysqldump
-e option
-
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE
-
SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS
SELECT
option
-
--max-user-connections=...
option
-
net_read
and net_write_timeout
-
GRANT
/REVOKE
and SHOW GRANTS FOR
-
New client/server protocol for 4.0
-
UNION
in 4.0
-
Multi-table
DELETE
/UPDATE
-
Derived tables in 4.1
-
User resources management
-
Initial developer of the
MySQL++
C++ API and the MySQLGUI
client.
- Tonu Samuel (past developer)
-
-
VIO interface (the foundation for the encrypted client/server protocol).
-
MySQL Filesystem (a way to use MySQL databases as files
and directories).
-
The
CASE
expression.
-
The
MD5()
and COALESCE()
functions.
-
RAID
support for MyISAM
tables.
- Sasha Pachev
-
-
Initial implementation of replication (up to version 4.0).
-
SHOW CREATE TABLE
.
-
mysql-bench
- Matt Wagner
-
-
MySQL test suite.
-
Webmaster (until 2002).
-
Coordinator of development.
- Miguel Solorzano
-
-
Win32 development and release builds.
-
Windows NT server code.
-
WinMySQLAdmin
- Timothy Smith (past developer)
-
-
Dynamic character sets support.
-
configure, RPMs and other parts of the build system.
-
Initial developer of
libmysqld
, the embedded server.
- Sergei Golubchik
-
-
Full-text search.
-
Added keys to the
MERGE
library.
- Jeremy Cole
-
-
Proofreading and editing this fine manual.
-
ALTER TABLE ... ORDER BY ...
.
-
UPDATE ... ORDER BY ...
.
-
DELETE ... ORDER BY ...
.
- Indrek Siitan
-
-
Designing/programming of our web interface.
-
Author of our newsletter management system.
- Jorge del Conde
-
-
MySQLCC
(MySQL Control Center
)
-
Win32 development
-
Initial implementation of the website portals.
- Venu Anuganti
-
-
Connector/ODBC (MyODBC) 3.51
-
New client/server protocol for 4.1 (for prepared statements).
-
- Arjen Lentz
-
-
Maintainer of the MySQL Reference Manual.
-
Preparing the O'Reilly printed edition of the manual.
- Alexander (Bar) Barkov, Alexey (Holyfoot) Botchkov, and Ramil Kalimullin
-
-
Spatial data (GIS) and R-Trees implementation for 4.1
-
Unicode and character sets for 4.1; documentation for same
- Oleksandr (Sanja) Byelkin
-
-
Query cache in 4.0
-
Implementation of subqueries (4.1).
- Aleksey (Walrus) Kishkin and Alexey (Ranger) Stroganov
-
-
Benchmarks design and analysis.
-
Maintenance of the MySQL test suite.
- Zak Greant
-
-
Open Source advocate, MySQL community relations.
- Carsten Pedersen
-
-
The MySQL Certification program.
- Lenz Grimmer
-
-
Production (build and release) engineering.
- Peter Zaitsev
-
-
SHA1()
, AES_ENCRYPT()
and AES_DECRYPT()
functions.
-
Debugging, cleaning up various features.
- Alexander (Salle) Keremidarski
-
- Per-Erik Martin
-
-
Lead developer for stored procedures (5.0) and triggers.
- Jim Winstead
-
- Mark Matthews
-
-
Connector/J driver (Java).
- Peter Gulutzan
-
SQL-99, SQL:2003 standards compliance.
-
Documentation of existing MySQL code/algorithms.
-
Character set documentation.
- Guilhem Bichot
-
-
Replication, from
MySQL
version 4.0.
While MySQL AB
owns all copyrights in the MySQL server
and the MySQL manual
, we wish to recognise those who have made
contributions of one kind or another to the MySQL distribution
.
Contributors are listed here, in somewhat random order:
- Paul DuBois
-
Ongoing help with making this manual correct and understandable.
That includes rewriting Monty's and David's attempts at English into
English as other people know it.
- Gianmassimo Vigazzola qwerg@mbox.vol.it or qwerg@tin.it
-
The initial port to Win32/NT.
- Kim Aldale
-
Helped to rewrite Monty's and David's early attempts at English into
English.
- Per Eric Olsson
-
For more or less constructive criticism and real testing of the dynamic
record format.
- Irena Pancirov irena@mail.yacc.it
-
Win32 port with Borland compiler.
mysqlshutdown.exe
and
mysqlwatch.exe
- David J. Hughes
-
For the effort to make a shareware SQL database. At TcX, the predecessor
of MySQL AB, we started with
mSQL
, but found that it couldn't
satisfy our purposes so instead we wrote an SQL interface to our
application builder Unireg. mysqladmin
and mysql
client are
programs that were largely influenced by their mSQL
counterparts.
We have put a lot of effort into making the MySQL syntax a superset of
mSQL
. Many of the API's ideas are borrowed from mSQL
to
make it easy to port free mSQL
programs to the MySQL API.
The MySQL software doesn't contain any code from mSQL
.
Two files in the distribution (`client/insert_test.c' and
`client/select_test.c') are based on the corresponding (non-copyrighted)
files in the mSQL
distribution, but are modified as examples showing
the changes necessary to convert code from mSQL
to MySQL Server.
(mSQL
is copyrighted David J. Hughes.)
- Fred Fish
-
For his excellent C debugging and trace library. Monty has made a number
of smaller improvements to the library (speed and additional options).
- Richard A. O'Keefe
-
For his public domain string library.
- Henry Spencer
-
For his regex library, used in
WHERE column REGEXP regexp
.
- Free Software Foundation
-
From whom we got an excellent compiler (
gcc
), the libc
library
(from which we have borrowed `strto.c' to get some code working in Linux),
and the readline
library (for the mysql
client).
- Free Software Foundation & The XEmacs development team
-
For a really great editor/environment used by almost everybody at
MySQL AB/TcX/detron.
- Patrick Lynch
-
For helping us acquire http://www.mysql.com/.
- Fred Lindberg
-
For setting up qmail to handle the MySQL mailing list and for the
incredible help we got in managing the MySQL mailing lists.
- Igor Romanenko igor@frog.kiev.ua
-
mysqldump
(previously msqldump
, but ported and enhanced by
Monty).
- Yuri Dario
-
For keeping up and extending the MySQL OS/2 port.
- Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes
-
For the
DBD
(Perl) interface.
- Tim Bunce
-
Author of
mysqlhotcopy
.
- Andreas Koenig a.koenig@mind.de
-
For the Perl interface for MySQL Server.
- Eugene Chan eugene@acenet.com.sg
-
For porting PHP for MySQL Server.
- Michael J. Miller Jr. mke@terrapin.turbolift.com
-
For the first MySQL manual. And a lot of spelling/language
fixes for the FAQ (that turned into the MySQL manual a long
time ago).
- Yan Cailin
-
First translator of the MySQL Reference Manual into simplified
Chinese in early 2000 on which the Big5 and HK coded
(http://mysql.hitstar.com/) versions were
based. Personal home page at
linuxdb.yeah.net.
- Giovanni Maruzzelli maruzz@matrice.it
-
For porting iODBC (Unix ODBC).
- Chris Provenzano
-
Portable user level pthreads. From the copyright: This product includes
software developed by Chris Provenzano, the University of California,
Berkeley, and contributors. We are currently using version 1_60_beta6
patched by Monty (see `mit-pthreads/Changes-mysql').
- Xavier Leroy Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr
-
The author of LinuxThreads (used by the MySQL Server on Linux).
- Zarko Mocnik zarko.mocnik@dem.si
-
Sorting for Slovenian language and the `cset.tar.gz' module that makes
it easier to add other character sets.
- "TAMITO" tommy@valley.ne.jp
-
The
_MB
character set macros and the ujis and sjis character sets.
- Joshua Chamas joshua@chamas.com
-
Base for concurrent insert, extended date syntax, debugging on NT, and
answering on the MySQL mailing list.
- Yves Carlier Yves.Carlier@rug.ac.be
-
mysqlaccess
, a program to show the access rights for a user.
- Rhys Jones rhys@wales.com (And GWE Technologies Limited)
-
For JDBC, a module to extract data from a MySQL Database with a Java client.
- Dr Xiaokun Kelvin ZHU X.Zhu@brad.ac.uk
-
Further development of the JDBC driver and other MySQL-related
Java tools.
- James Cooper pixel@organic.com
-
For setting up a searchable mailing list archive at his site.
- Rick Mehalick Rick_Mehalick@i-o.com
-
For
xmysql
, a graphical X client for MySQL Server.
- Doug Sisk sisk@wix.com
-
For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux.
- Diemand Alexander V. axeld@vial.ethz.ch
-
For providing RPM packages of MySQL for Red Hat Linux-Alpha.
- Antoni Pamies Olive toni@readysoft.es
-
For providing RPM versions of a lot of MySQL clients for Intel
and SPARC.
- Jay Bloodworth jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us
-
For providing RPM versions for MySQL Version 3.21.
- Jochen Wiedmann wiedmann@neckar-alb.de
-
For maintaining the Perl
DBD::mysql
module.
- Therrien Gilbert gilbert@ican.net, Jean-Marc Pouyot jmp@scalaire.fr
-
French error messages.
- Petr Snajdr, snajdr@pvt.net
-
Czech error messages.
- Jaroslaw Lewandowski jotel@itnet.com.pl
-
Polish error messages.
- Miguel Angel Fernandez Roiz
-
Spanish error messages.
- Roy-Magne Mo rmo@www.hivolda.no
-
Norwegian error messages and testing of Version 3.21.#.
- Timur I. Bakeyev root@timur.tatarstan.ru
-
Russian error messages.
- brenno@dewinter.com & Filippo Grassilli phil@hyppo.com
-
Italian error messages.
- Dirk Munzinger dirk@trinity.saar.de
-
German error messages.
- Billik Stefan billik@sun.uniag.sk
-
Slovak error messages.
- Stefan Saroiu tzoompy@cs.washington.edu
-
Romanian error messages.
- Peter Feher
-
Hungarian error messages.
- Roberto M. Serqueira
-
Portuguese error messages.
- Carsten H. Pedersen
-
Danish error messages.
- Arjen G. Lentz
-
Dutch error messages, completing earlier partial translation
(also work on consistency and spelling).
- David Sacerdote davids@secnet.com
-
Ideas for secure checking of DNS hostnames.
- Wei-Jou Chen jou@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw
-
Some support for Chinese(BIG5) characters.
- Wei He hewei@mail.ied.ac.cn
-
A lot of functionality for the Chinese(GBK) character set.
- Zeev Suraski bourbon@netvision.net.il
-
FROM_UNIXTIME()
time formatting, ENCRYPT()
functions, and
bison
advisor.
Active mailing list member.
- Luuk de Boer luuk@wxs.nl
-
Ported (and extended) the benchmark suite to
DBI
/DBD
. Have
been of great help with crash-me
and running benchmarks. Some new
date functions. The mysql_setpermissions
script.
- Jay Flaherty fty@mediapulse.com
-
Big parts of the Perl
DBI
/DBD
section in the manual.
- Paul Southworth pauls@etext.org, Ray Loyzaga yar@cs.su.oz.au
-
Proof-reading of the Reference Manual.
- Alexis Mikhailov root@medinf.chuvashia.su
-
User-definable functions (UDFs);
CREATE FUNCTION
and
DROP FUNCTION
.
- Andreas F. Bobak bobak@relog.ch
-
The
AGGREGATE
extension to UDF functions.
- Ross Wakelin R.Wakelin@march.co.uk
-
Help to set up InstallShield for MySQL-Win32.
- Jethro Wright III jetman@li.net
-
The `libmysql.dll' library.
- James Pereria jpereira@iafrica.com
-
Mysqlmanager, a Win32 GUI tool for administrating MySQL Server.
- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca
-
Porting of MIT-pthreads to NetBSD/Alpha and NetBSD 1.3/i386.
- Antony T. Curtis antony.curtis@olcs.net
-
Porting of the MySQL Database software to OS/2.
- Martin Ramsch m.ramsch@computer.org
-
Examples in the MySQL Tutorial.
- Steve Harvey
-
For making
mysqlaccess
more secure.
- Konark IA-64 Centre of Persistent Systems Private Limited
-
http://www.pspl.co.in/konark/. Help with the Win64 port of the
MySQL server.
- Albert Chin-A-Young.
-
Configure updates for Tru64, large file support and better TCP wrappers
support.
- John Birrell
-
Emulation of
pthread_mutex()
for OS/2.
- Benjamin Pflugmann
-
Extended
MERGE
tables to handle INSERTS
. Active member
on the MySQL mailing lists.
- Guilhem Bichot
-
Fixed handling of exponents for
DECIMAL
.
Author of mysql_tableinfo
.
- Jocelyn Fournier
-
Excellent spotting and reporting innumerable bugs
(especially in the MySQL 4.1 subquery code).
- Georg Richter
-
MySQL 4.1 testing and bug hunting.
New PHP 5.0
mysqli
extension (API) for use with MySQL 4.1 and up.
- Marc Liyanage
-
Maintaining the Mac OS X packages and providing invaluable feedback
on how to create Mac OS X PKGs.
- Robert Rutherford
-
Providing invaluable information and feedback about the QNX port.
Other contributors, bugfinders, and testers: James H. Thompson, Maurizio
Menghini, Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra, Zarko Mocnik, Wim Bonis, Elmar
Haneke, jehamby@lightside, psmith@BayNetworks.com,
duane@connect.com.au, Ted Deppner ted@psyber.com,
Mike Simons, Jaakko Hyvatti.
And lots of bug report/patches from the folks on the mailing list.
A big tribute goes to those that help us answer questions on the
MySQL mailing lists:
- Daniel Koch dkoch@amcity.com
-
Irix setup.
- Luuk de Boer luuk@wxs.nl
-
Benchmark questions.
- Tim Sailer tps@users.buoy.com
-
DBD-mysql
questions.
- Boyd Lynn Gerber gerberb@zenez.com
-
SCO-related questions.
- Richard Mehalick RM186061@shellus.com
-
xmysql
-related questions and basic installation questions.
- Zeev Suraski bourbon@netvision.net.il
-
Apache module configuration questions (log & auth), PHP-related
questions, SQL syntax-related questions and other general questions.
- Francesc Guasch frankie@citel.upc.es
-
General questions.
- Jonathan J Smith jsmith@wtp.net
-
Questions pertaining to OS-specifics with Linux, SQL syntax, and other
things that might need some work.
- David Sklar sklar@student.net
-
Using MySQL from PHP and Perl.
- Alistair MacDonald A.MacDonald@uel.ac.uk
-
Not yet specified, but is flexible and can handle Linux and maybe HP-UX.
Will try to get user to use
mysqlbug
.
- John Lyon jlyon@imag.net
-
Questions about installing MySQL on Linux systems, using either
`.rpm' files or compiling from source.
- Lorvid Ltd. lorvid@WOLFENET.com
-
Simple billing/license/support/copyright issues.
- Patrick Sherrill patrick@coconet.com
-
ODBC and VisualC++ interface questions.
- Randy Harmon rjharmon@uptimecomputers.com
-
DBD
, Linux, some SQL syntax questions.
While MySQL AB
owns all copyrights in the MySQL server
and the MySQL manual
, we wish to recognise the following companies,
which helped us finance the development of the MySQL server
,
such as by paying us for developing a new feature or giving us hardware
for development of the MySQL server
.
- VA Linux / Andover.net
-
Funded replication.
- NuSphere
-
Editing of the MySQL manual.
- Stork Design studio
-
The MySQL web site in use between 1998-2000.
- Intel
-
Contributed to development on Windows and Linux platforms.
- Compaq
-
Contributed to Development on Linux/Alpha.
- SWSoft
-
Development on the embedded
mysqld
version.
- FutureQuest
-
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