On 13 Nov 2006, at 21:19, Richard Eriksson wrote:
Anecdote: my hosting provider, Verve Hosting http://www.vervehosting.com/shared.html runs 4.0.27-standard on the server my sites are hosted on, but they announced they're upgrading all of their servers to 4.1.20.
The reason that many hosting companies have yet to upgrade, is because the upgrade from MySQL 4.0 to MySQL 4.1 is quite a pain. It's much easier to upgrade from 4.1 to 5.0, for example. (Sounds familiar? ;)) If you're worried about getting stuck with an unsupported MySQL version, I'd suggest that you send your hosting providing an e-mail. Ask them for their upgrade strategy/plans, and point them to the MySQL documentation if necessary. The fact that we drop support for MySQL 4.0 does not necessarily mean that Drupal 6.0 will stop working on MySQL 4.0. Chances are we happen to be backward compatible. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/