[std.database]

[Marco Leise]

Am 17.10.2011, 19:46 Uhr, schrieb Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de>:

> Am 17.10.2011, 18:38 Uhr, schrieb Steve Teale  
> <steve.teale at britseyeview.com>:
>
>>> PostgreSQL's protocol is stable since 2003, but MySQL's is not very
>>> friendly indeed. Phobos might follow opportunistic path and support
>>> direct access with recent MySQL versions and C wrapper for older ones.
>>
>> But it looks like the C wrapper approach for MySQL won't fly for Phobos
>> because of the GPL taint. MySQL support might have to be consigned to  
>> the
>> Deimos 'derived works' directory. Either that or Phobos only supports
>> versions > 5.xx.
>>
>> Steve
>
> Do people not upgrade their database to MySQL 5? I never had to deal  
> with that and especially large complicated databases. If it is easy to  
> upgrade to MySQL 5 and it is faster and more secure there are probably  
> few *actively developed* projects accessing MySQL 4 DBs. (MySQL 5 is  
> pretty much exactly 6 years old now.)

I found this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml#doc_chap1
Leaving away the safety net it looks like a call to mysql_upgrade_shell is  
all that's needed in the general case.