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MySQL Readies Release Candidate For 5.1

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

Anonymous Dolphin writes "MySQL has released plans for a final RC for the MySQL 5.1 server. Monty Widenius, the CTO and founder of MySQL, has put up a request for more feedback from the community. You can get the latest RC here. Please help with the testing of 5.1 and report your bugs here."

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  1. Re:nice feature set by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not exactly. 5.1 introduces row based replication as opposed to the statement based replication that is incompatible with the new behavior. Statement based replication has the slaves execute the exact same statement on the slave. Row based just passes the new values of the modification to the slave.

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    Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
  2. Re:Do people trust this project anymore? by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 5, Informative

    You haven't kept up. Sun stated that nothing was going to change with the license. The "closed source" portion had already been released under the gpl and Sun said it would stay that way. In Fact they just moved from the closed source bitkeeper to bazaar for source code control, allowing anyone to track their progress.

    PostgreSQL is a fine Database as well. MySql just seems to be used more in web environments.

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  3. Re:Hosting providers by xiaomai · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't really true of an upgrade from Mysql 4.x -> 5.x. MySQL changed some things (notably their JOIN syntax) to make them more compliant with the ANSI standards. So assuming you're dealing w/ PHP/MySQL programmers that only knew the MySQL way to do joins, their applications may break on upgrade.

    For more information, see the section entitled "Join Processing Changes" here:

    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/join.html