Hello Alexander, 2 alternatives:
- judging by the gap between 1.4.1 and 1.4.3 we're at least another 6 to 12 months away from a new release, despite the tons of good new stuff in CVS. According to http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/lifecycle/#calendar 4.0 is already out of extended support and 4.1 will be by the end of the year. I'm +1 for requiring at least 4.1 if not 5.0 from the next release onward. - Another possibility would be to detect the server version from the client lib and switch the use of escape/real_escape from that information. The Kannel Admin status page does the detection of the server version already, so if mysql is used in production with a database, that information is available after the connect/bind. Of course if the client lib is too old to provide real_escape to begin with, this is purely an autoconf issue. -- Best regards, Thomas mailto:[email protected]
