[development] Fundamental MySQL changes in Drupal 6 (six)

Larry Garfield larry at garfieldtech.com
Mon Nov 13 16:08:11 UTC 2006


-- 
Larry Garfield

On Mon, November 13, 2006 10:01 am, Angela Byron said:
>
> On 12-Nov-06, at 3:38 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> After a little chat with Dries on #drupal :
>>
>> The plan is to drop MySQL 4.0 support in Drupal 6.0 (note that free
>> support already ended for this version of MySQL).
>
> I did a survey of some random hosts I found mentioned in the "2006
> hosting providers evaluations" thread: http://drupal.org/node/46707
> and the hosting forum.
>
> - Dreamhost: 5.0 or 4.1 for older plans (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/
> index.php/MySQL)
> - GoDaddy: 4.0.24 (http://help.godaddy.com/article.php?article_id=221)
> - 1and1: "4" (http://faq.1and1.com/scripting_languages_supported/
> mysql_database/1.html) - anyone can confirm this?
> - NearlyFreeSpeech.net: 4.1.x (https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/) -
> props for not making me have to hunt around for this info!
> - Netfirms:  4.1 (http://www.netfirms.com/web-hosting-advantage-
> compare/zone/advantage)
> - Total Choice Hosting: 4.0.12 (http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/
> help/faqs.html)
> - Servage.net: "v4 & v5" (http://www.servage.net/page/hosting_features/)
> - Media Temple: 4.1.11 (http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/)
> - Site5: "MySQL 4+" (http://www.site5.com/hosting/) -- could someone
> confirm which version they run?
> - AllCheapWeb.com - 4.0.24 (http://help.securepaynet.net/article.php?
> article_id=221&topic_id=67&prog_id=allcheapweb&)
> - Siteground: 4.1.21 (http://www.siteground.com/hosting_features.htm)
> - TextDrive: 4.1 (http://textdrive.com/hosting/shared)
>
> So of that list of 12, 3 are still using 4.0.x, and a couple more are
> ambiguous.
>
> Just some data that might or might not be worth factoring into this
> decision.
>
> -Angie

I can add two to that list:

Pair Networks: 4.1 (http://www.pair.com/)
FutureQuest: 4.0 (http://www.futurequest.net/)

--Larry Garfield



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