Hunh. Upgrading from that means that date formats are returned differently so how we display dates would need to be changed, there's authentication issues because the password field is longer and more secure so bots would need to be fixed, we'd have to parse the articles to make them "safe" then "convert" them to unicode, there'd be several problems just in going to MySQL 4.1 -- but wouldn't it be worth it in the end to continue to upgrade all the way to 5.1 for more streamlining and getting rid of possible bugs like this one: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=32707 "It was possible to force an error message of excessive length which could lead to a buffer overflow." Is there a group that's specifically working on issues that would need to be overcome to upgrade our MySQL?
2009/5/18 Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Bart banaticus@gmail.com wrote:
Which version of MySQL are we using now? The mediawiki site says that a
new
mediawiki installation is compatible with MySQL back to 4.0 -- does that mean we're still using 4.0 and haven't upgraded?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version says "4.0.40-wikimedia-log". It's a custom compile based off 4.0.40 -- source code is at http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mysql/.
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