Speaking for myself, I am already on 4.0.18 on my test machine at home, and 4.0.24 on my hosting account. So, for me, 3.x support can go away. Perhaps a poll on Drupal.org on "what version of MySQL is your hosting company using" give us an idea on how much of each is out there in the field. --- Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 19:25:34 +0200 From: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> Subject: [drupal-devel] MySQL 3, MySQL 4 and MySQL 5 To: drupal-devel@drupal.org Message-ID: <81a18f63b2f53464852d8e6d94ccf48f@buytaert.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed At what point should we drop MySQL 3 support? MySQL 4 has been released on October 21, 2001 [1] and a MySQL 5 BETA release is already available from [2].
From my investigation, making MySQL 4 a requirement would allow us to use row-level locking and transactions, two features that are becoming increasingly important. If would allow us to get rid of the various MySQL errors, and would bring us one step closer to true database integrity. It would be nice if we could take advantage of these in Drupal 4.7.
[1] http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article_81.html [2] http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html Thoughts?