[Koha-devel] mysql version

[Paul POULAIN]

Joshua Ferraro a écrit :
> I think 4.0 is a minimum for sure. For example, 3.23 doesn't include
> query_cache so everything runs _very_ slowly. I've not tried out 4.1
> but I'm not against it as a minimum. Since MySQL AB releases official
> RPMs for all version of MySQL, it's not too hard to install a newer
> version on RPM-based systems. 
Not so easy : binary format of mysql databases differs from another 
version to another one.
So, once you've installed a version X & have some DB, it's quite not so 
easy to update, because you have to dump everything, delete everything, 
install mysql X+1, and reload databases.
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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)