I wanted to follow-up on this question from 10 months ago and ask if there are any plans to upgrade to MariaDB 10.2 or higher
Besides CTEs, another important feature added in 10.2 is the windowed functions LEAD() and LAG() On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:29 PM Huji Lee <huji.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > CTEs are not an absolute must-have, they are just very nice to have. > > Thanks for explaining the decision process. I can certainly wait longer. > > Huji > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 3:43 AM, Jaime Crespo <jcre...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> There is no timeline at the moment for an upgrade. We are finishing at >> the moment the upgrade of other servers in production from 10.0 to 10.1 and >> from Debian Jessie to Stretch (87% completed), so that is the first blocker >> to not think about other upgrades (as we cannot support more than 2 >> versions and operating systems). >> >> We tested internally 10.3, and at the moment of the release we considered >> it not yet ready for production. We are also looking closely at MySQL 8.0, >> which also offers CTE support, but has other improvements, such as better >> metadata handling. >> >> We are likely going to skip over 10.2. However, I recently asked if CTEs >> were useful for someone at wikitech [0] and I got very few responses, so it >> is not at the moment a priority. Natural upgrades happen when: No older >> version host are longer around, the version is tested enough so we are >> confident it will cause not issues, and we have the resources to proceed >> with the upgrade. Note that while new features are always nice, bugs >> normally come with newer major versions, so every DBAs policy is normally >> wait a few minor versions to avoid being beta-testers. >> >> If I were to guess right now, a possible upgrade may happen mid-next >> year, tied to Debian Buster upgrade, to either 10.3 or 8.0, but that is >> just a guess, depends on the above factors. Please let us know how >> important are things like CTEs or other features are to you so we can >> prioritize them accordingly. >> >> [0] <url: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-February/089565.html >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list >> Cloud@lists.wikimedia.org (formerly lab...@lists.wikimedia.org) >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud >> > >
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