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

[Gabor Hojtsy]

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
> 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).
>
> This will allow us to use more ANSI SQL constructs like subqueries.
>
> Life is beautiful.

Great. Not only subqueries but we can also build on proper encoding 
support in the database layer, which is great news.

Gabor