Re: MySQL drops BDB engine

From: Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MySQL drops BDB engine
Date: 2006-08-24 14:42:41
Message-ID: 44EDBAE1.3070807@otg-nc.com
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>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-12.html:
>>
>> Incompatible change: Support for the BerkeleyDB (BDB) engine has
>> been dropped from this release. Any existing tables that are in BDB
>> format will not be readable from within MySQL from 5.1.12 or newer.
>> You should convert your tables to another storage engine
>> before upgrading to 5.1.12.
> Did they backtrack on this one? I don't see the change there
> (anymore?)...on the contrary, I see several changes to BDB
> functionality - implying that its sticking around...
>
> Chander Ganesan
> Open Technology Group, Inc.
> One Copley Parkway, Suite 210
> Morrisville, NC 27560
> Phone: 877-258-8987/919-463-0999

Doh! I stand corrected...I was looking at the 5.1.2 changes, not the 12
changes. I have customers at NASA that will be very interested in
this.... I wonder how long it will be before it makes the mainstream
news...

chander
>
>
>>
>> One down, one to go?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ian Barwick
>>
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