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
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> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Bart <banaticus(a)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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