On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Glanthor <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I know all Wikimedia Wikis use MySQL 4.0.40, since 2003. > That is rather old, it is not planned upgrading to a newer version? I > know it would not be easy, but the servers cannot run this version > forever.
They probably could, actually. :) Domas is the one who's keeping things at 4.0, and he has a branch set up that he ports fixes and improvements into as necessary: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mysql/ It works fine, so there's no pressing reason to move. Most of the significant features added in subsequent versions are half-baked and not usable on a site as large as Wikipedia anyway. Last I heard, Domas was considering upgrading for some InnoDB scalability improvements, and had a slave running MySQL 5, but I don't know what came of that. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
