How to tell if MySQL native bindings are used (Win32)?

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Hi all,

I believe I’ve installed the Windows native© bindings for MySQL by
executing ‘gem install mysql’ and choosing the ‘1. mysql 2.7.3
(mswin32)’ option. However, I’m not sure how to tell if Rails is making
use of this.

I am able to execute “require ‘mysql.so’” in irb, so I think the C
bindings are installed properly. However, I expected to see a
difference in performance for my fixture load and I did not. Is there a
definitive way I can tell if these bindings are being used?

Thanks!

Brian H.

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On 11 Jun 2008, at 21:30, Brian H. wrote:

bindings are installed properly. However, I expected to see a
difference in performance for my fixture load and I did not. Is
there a
definitive way I can tell if these bindings are being used?

rails prints a warning message when it uses the pure ruby ones. If you
wanted to be really sure I suppose you could just remove the ruby one
(activerecord/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb). I think performance
differences would be more noticeable when returning large result sets.

Fred