Re: MySQL backward compatibility question

2010-03-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:53:01 -0700 Craig White wrote: > As for 'Fedora's fanatical devotion to churning out latest versions of > everything' - despite the negative characterization you seemingly want > to attach to it No negative intent. I run fedora because of it (I need to know what curveballs

Re: MySQL backward compatibility question

2010-03-06 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 11:24 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I'm starting to play around with MySQL and PHP on fedora 12. > > With Fedora's fanatical devotion to churning out latest > versions of everything, I'm just wondering what the rate > of new MySQL versions that are non-backward compatible > has

MySQL backward compatibility question

2010-03-06 Thread Tom Horsley
I'm starting to play around with MySQL and PHP on fedora 12. With Fedora's fanatical devotion to churning out latest versions of everything, I'm just wondering what the rate of new MySQL versions that are non-backward compatible has been like. Would I be better off using mysqldump and restoring d