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C Credits

This appendix lists the developers, contributors, and supporters that have helped to make MySQL what it is today.

C.1 Developers at MySQL AB

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.

Michael (Monty) Widenius

Has written the following parts of the MySQL database software:

All the main code in 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

Coordinator and 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.

Jani Tolonen

mysqlimport
A lot of extensions to the mysql client.
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.
Multi-table DELETE/UPDATE
The MySQLGUI client.
Maintainer of MySQL++.

Tonu Samuel

Our security expert.
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

Replication.
SHOW CREATE TABLE.
mod_mysql_include
cgi++
mysql-bench

Matt Wagner

MySQL test suite.
Our webmaster.

Miguel Solorzano

Win32 development.
Winmysqladmin.

Timothy Smith

Dynamic character support.
Responsible for MySQL configure.

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

Designer/programmer of our web interface.

Jorge del Conde

MyCC MySQL Control Center.
Web portals.
Win32 development.

C.2 Contributors to MySQL

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: Help with making the Reference 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 a 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 the 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 RedHat Linux.
Diemand Alexander V. axeld@vial.ethz.ch: For providing RPM packages of MySQL for RedHat 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: Portugise error messages.
Carsten H. Pedersen: Danish error messages
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.

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@lists.mysql.com mailing list:

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.

C.3 Supporters to MySQL

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.
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