http://www.abdevelopment.ca/taxonomy/term/43/0 en http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/trouble-mysql-land <p>This amuses me to no end. Today, on Slashdot, Ars Technica, and other sites, there has been a story circulating about a blog post by Michael Widenius, one of the core developers of MySQL. The core of his post is that there are a series of significant bugs in the 5.1 release which should have been dealt with before declaring General Availability. My first thought was, "wait a minute, don't I have 5.1 on my mail server?":</p> <div class="codeblock"><code>kibble:~ andrew$ pkg_info | grep mysql-server<br />mysql-server-5.1.29 Multithreaded SQL database (server)</code></div> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-links"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Related Links:&nbsp;</div> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/12/mysql-creator-version-5-1-released-with-fatal-bugs/">MySQL creator: version 5.1 released with &quot;fatal bugs&quot;</a> </div> <div class="field-item"> <div class="field-label-inline"> Related Links:&nbsp;</div> <a href="http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/11/oops-we-did-it-again-mysql-51-released.html">Oops, we did it again (MySQL 5.1 released as GA with crashing bugs)</a> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/trouble-mysql-land" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.abdevelopment.ca/blog/trouble-mysql-land#comments freebsd mysql Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:57:22 +0000 andrew 67 at http://www.abdevelopment.ca