RSSNewest Version of MySQL Locked and Loaded
By Aaron Dobbins | Published January 22, 2001, 2:12 AM
After nearly two years without a stable upgrade, MySQL Version 3.23 has officially been declared stable by developers. New features in the latest release include full-text searching, and replication between a master and many slaves and several new table handlers that support large files and transactions by using the Berkeley DB library, available from Sleepy Cat software. Michael Widenius, chief MySQL developer reports that future upgrades will only contain bug fixes and the like as he focuses his attention on MySQL 4.0. Download MySQL 3.23 from MySQL.com.
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|Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Lost connection to MySQL server during query in db_mysql.inc on line 73
Database error: connect(vega.betanews.com, slusers, $Password) failed.
MySQL Error: ()
Session halted.
I'm tired of seeing this every 3rd or 4th time I check in here.
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|Yes, I used to get it ALL the time here, but now, just once in awhile.
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|2 questions:
1/ Why is Michael focusing his attention on version 3? Surely he should be paying more attention to FUTURE versions, rather than old ones?
2/ Does this mean Betanews will be more stable now/less errors showing?
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|It said he will focus on MySQL 4 and not MySQL 3. So as far as I am concerned he is heading in the right direction. Although PostgreSQL is still the best database for my application/situation. I love MySQL but not when advanced database features and data integrity are needed.
Josh
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|Josh,
It was just a typo by Aaron - it's been corrected now (the article originally said version 3).
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|Actually its not. The original article did say 4.0. Someone must have gotten confused. Sorry. I always check the comments on the articles (you all are great at pointing out spelling errors and the like) and I could never seem to find where it said he was working on 3.0.
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|That's because I fixed it. Thanks for the tip daztop.
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|and thanks for clearing that up nate! I knew I wasn't going mad!
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|Why don't people use the open source database Interbase?
Isn't it more mature than MySql?
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|I agree, MySQL is terrible!
Ok, it's fast but it misses several important features like foreign keys, subquerys, commit/rollback and more.
PostgreeSQL is a much better option.
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|Not really. Interbase has only recently become open source.
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|Interbase supports transactions. That's a definate plus.
Also, Interbase has a graphical console tool, 3rd party add-ons (ODBC drivers, utilities, etc).
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|I believe there's a branch in the mysql source tree with transactions and row-locking, it's just not ready to be released.
PostgreSQL is still probably the best opensource sql server but anyone who's serious has oracle, plain and simple.
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