Re: django and mysql versions

2012-10-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Elizabeth Rachel Lemon wrote: > According to this page: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/databases/ > "Django supports MySQL 5.0.3 and higher." > > But the next section says that MySQLdb is required, and when you click the > link to MySQLdb from that pag

Re: django and mysql versions

2012-09-30 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > The main features that have been added to MySQL are views, triggers, > stored procedures... And "prepared statements". I beg to differ: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/create-view.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/e

Re: django and mysql versions

2012-09-30 Thread Elizabeth Rachel Lemon
Thanks for the response -- this is really useful information about what MySQL features new to version 5.5 are not handled by MySQLdb. In this case, my reasons for asking about using MySQL 5.5 aren't really about wanting any features that are available only in 5.5, but more about a situation wh

django and mysql versions

2012-09-30 Thread Elizabeth Rachel Lemon
According to this page: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/databases/ "Django supports MySQL 5.0.3 and higher." But the next section says that MySQLdb is required, and when you click the link to MySQLdb from that page, it goes to this page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/ wh