Hi, Otto, On Aug 18, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > Yes, if the client doesn't support redirects, it'll work as before - > > that is, the client will be kicked out when the server is shut down > > and then the client will connect to a new server because, of course, > > if there's failover, there must be some way of telling clients what > > server to connect to. The error will be ER_SERVER_SHUTDOWN which is > > what old clients were always getting in this case. So, basically, > > for old clients there will be no changes whatsoever. > > ..which is not ideal. Some backwards compatibility would make the user > experience much better.
I'm sorry, I don't understand that. I wrote that for old clients _nothing changes whatsoever_. It's a perfect backward compatibility, as if the new feature didn't exist at all, an ideal case, which is rarely even possible. How can it be more backward compatible than that? :) Regards, Sergei VP of MariaDB Server Engineering and secur...@mariadb.org _______________________________________________ developers mailing list -- developers@lists.mariadb.org To unsubscribe send an email to developers-le...@lists.mariadb.org
