On Jan 11, 2013, at 1:48 PM, Michael Bayer wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Mike Bissell wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> A few months ago I asked about MySQL 5.5 support. Ubuntu's package manager >> had upgraded me to MySQL 5.5, but SQLAlchemy's docs state the following: >> >> """ >> SQLAlchemy supports 6 major MySQL versions: 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 and >> 6.0, with capabilities increasing with more modern servers. >> """ >> - http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_7/dialects/mysql.html >> >> After a couple months of uptime on multiple production servers, I am happy >> to report no problems with MySQL 5.5 + SQLAlchemy 0.7.8 + MySQL-python 1.2.3 >> + Python 2.7.1. I've been running on both Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.* >> >> MySQL 5.1 is ancient history, and MySQL 5.5 has been GA since late 12/2010. >> What would it take to certify SQLAlchemy for MySQL 5.5, so that the docs no >> longer dissuade potential users? > > > uh (because surprised the obvious omission of 5.5 as that's old text would > "dissuade" anyone...), I could just make that line much more generic > ("versions 4.x through present") as I don't have the ability to remember to > maintain it every couple of years, also 3.23 isn't really working anymore.
As I don't have the resources to maintain that text across changing MySQL versions, as well as the fact that the compatibility section is much more specific than what is present for any other dialect, I've removed all specifics for the 0.7 and 0.8 docs: SQLAlchemy supports MySQL starting with version 4.1 through modern releases. However, no heroic measures are taken to work around major missing SQL features - if your server version does not support sub-selects, for example, they won't work in SQLAlchemy either. See the official MySQL documentation for detailed information about features supported in any given server release. thanks for pointing this out, I don't attend to the MySQL docs very often. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en.
