On 30/03/2024 22:41, Florian Smeets wrote:
From what I gathered, the DBD:MySQL vs DBD:MariaDB situation is not easy. You cannot just replace it one for one, some care needs to be taken.
Care to explain this blanket statement? Or are you relating to FreeBSD that does something strange to be that way?
I've found DBD::MariaDB a 100% drop in replacement - even for MySQL users, it is backward compatible (it actually forked out of DBD::mysql v4) and it was designed to just drop in and change the DBI calls to it. This is on Linux, but I find it hard to imagine that *BSD's would be any different.
We are doing just that here with no other changes, zero issues on dozens of administrative scripts that use it (including users/host management).
-- Regards, Noel Butler
