Am 30.10.2013 um 17:31 schrieb Matthew B. Brookover <mbrookov@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 11:22 +0100, Leon Fauster wrote: >> Am 29.10.2013 um 22:56 schrieb Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> >>> no - how do you come to this idea? >> >> In the last decade i saw very strange results while updating >> or doing similar things. the question above is more a theoretical >> thought despite the rational knowledge that in this example >> (communication-layer) the compatibility is preserved. > > I have always tried to keep the client libraries in sync with the > database in my own code. I was surprised that the upstream builders had > mixed the 5.0 client with the 5.5 data base. I know of cases where > library developers will provide for compatibility with various versions > of protocols. It looks to me like this is one of those cases. > > We are using Perl and PHP with MySQL, and both seem to work with the 5.0 > client library on the 5.5 database. > > Besides the usual tests like create a new web page, delete a web page, > edit a page, etc, we pointed a spider that is part of burp suite at the > web site on a development system. The web site is several thousand > pages, some are PHP with parts that are pulled from an upgraded mysql > 5.5 data base and others are flat files. Burp suite has been running > for several hours and every thing looks good so far. interesting, thanks for sharing. > I think this weekend, we will start moving production servers from > CentOS 5.9 to 5.10 and from MySQL 5.0 to 5.5. -- LF _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos