Aran wrote:
I've found that by setting $wgDBmysql5 to false
things seem to work ok,
but is this really a good solution? I'd like everything to be running up
to date, not in some backward compatibility mode... does anyone have any
idea how to fix the problem properly?
It's not a backwards compatibility mode. It's just a different
configuration. In fact, Wikimedia servers are working with mysql 4.0! :)