On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 10:05 -0800, Kevin Brown wrote: > Geo Carncross wrote: > > I mean, dbmail knows what queries it uses, and I don't suggest for a > > moment that dbmail should attempt to find optimal queries for suboptimal > > (read: old) databases, but if dbmail 2.0 works with 4.0 then 2.2 should > > as well, otherwise we'll be making upgrades hell for users. > > Not really. MySQL isn't like PostgreSQL with respect to its database > files. It doesn't require a dump/restore during upgrade. Upgrading > MySQL is generally as simple as dropping in the new binaries and maybe > making a few modifications to the configuration. > > It's more of a problem if there are backwards-compatibility issues > with respect to the SQL implementation or something. Of that, I can't > speak. But that will only be a problem if the database is being used > for something else in parallel with DBMail (which might be a > significant fraction of the userbase for all I know, so it's certainly > a consideration).
Thanks for clarifying this- I don't do much with MySQL- anything myself really- because of bad experiences in the 3.3 days... :) -- Internet Connection High Quality Web Hosting http://www.internetconnection.net/
