Kaj Niemi wrote:
> In my opinion this isn't really true. MySQL has a record of accidentally
> changing ABI between minor releases - sometimes undocumented - and then
> reverting the change in for the next release; see mysql bugs #21829,
> #23427 for example. Also a lot of features receive "Incompatible change"
> mentions in their changelogs; whether one of them affects you or not is
> random. ;-)

Mm. Good point. I had recollections of them being good about it in the
3.23.x days, but I wonder if that's just my selective memory.

> To end this message on a more positive tone upgrading between MySQL
> versions is certainly easiler than with PostgreSQL (8.0 -> 8.1 -> 8.2 ->
> 8.3 -> etc) ;-)

Yeah, the whole "dump, upgrade, restore" thing has always made me glad
I'm not a Postgres user. :)

--
HJ

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