On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
wrote:
... Keep in mind that we can't be purists here about standard SQL or whatever -- the code must work on MySQL 4.0, and it must be *efficient* on MySQL 4.0, at any cost, since that's what Wikipedia runs.
Still?
MySQL 5.x have been out for a very long time now. 3.5 years of production stable release for 5.0.
Domas, I assume you're still on this list - can you give us some background why we're not on a closer to current release MySQL within the WMF environments?
Or is this a Brion question?