On Thursday, October 19, 2017, Hogan, Michael C <[email protected]> wrote: > How many years into the future is it reasonable to expect that MySQL will remain a recommended database server for "production use" along with MariaDB now that the Foundation has switched to using MariaDB internally? I know that MariaDB claims to be drop in compatible with MySQL, but the list of variances seems to be slowly growing. References... > * Compatibility - [[mw:Compatibility]] > * MariaDB support? - [[mw:Topic:R1hqki3kaytylml4]] > * https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/ > > Other than [[mw:Compatibility]] on mediawiki.org is there anywhere else (wiki pages, Phabricator tasks/tags, etc.) that I should check for technical roadmap information before emailing wikitech-l? > > > Thank you! > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Mediawiki usually doesnt use new exotic db features. I would be shocked if we dropped support for mysql at any point in the forseeable future unless mysql becomes totally abandoned. -- brian _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
