So, the amazing Mr. Shrewsbury, master of all things Drizzle-replication, has created a beta tree with multi-master replication!

As his blog explains, it is still very early days, but as it currently stands, it can provide some long-hoped-for functionality for people with particular replication needs.  This feature will definitely be made more robust in the future, but it is still quite useful in its present form.

As I think this would be cool to see in trunk, I have started testing the tree.  No progress has been made on the multi-master side of things…yet, but I am happy to report that all of our existing replication tests (including crash and restore) are passing just fine.

What this means is that the code could make it into trunk without breaking anything for anyone and also providing access to a very cool new feature.  As time permits, we will be expanding the test cases for this feature, but in the interim, I hope that you will enjoy testing Dave’s awesome work ; )