new stable mysql series: 4.1

[Paweł Gołaszewski]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> 4.1 series of mysql database is now considered to be stable. It contains
>     few new and very nice features like subqueries:
> http://www.mysql.com/products/mysql/
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Nutshell_4.1_features.html
> 
> Of course soname has changed and there is one very small API change:
> mysql_shutdown(X) -> mysql_shutdown(X,SHUTDOWN_DEFAULT).
> 
> Do we want it in AC? (I would say yes but...).

Most important thing for ordinary user is problem with password.
Upgrade is needed...

And UTF :-/

Could be really problematic, but features are really nice...

> Things that are interesting for us
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Upgrading-from-4.0.html
> 
> There is also new feature - NDB engine for Mysql Cluster which allows to split 
> storage engine and management into few servers.
> 
> Anyone is invited for testing - compiled version is on ftp in testing area. 
> Note that you need to install mysql-libs via rpm -ivh to keep old one, too.
> 

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