Opened 14 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#14266 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

Audit database backend support claims, particularly for MySQL

Reported by: Carl Meyer Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

The documentation currently claims that it "may be possible" to use MySQL versions as far back as 3.23. It would be good to clarify exactly which versions are supported for all built-in database backends. This includes reviewing what versions are in use by e.g. RedHat Enterprise Linux, to get an idea which versions would be good for Django to still support, and checking which versions are in fact currently usable.

This has been done relatively recently for PostgreSQL, so a quick sanity check may be all that's necessary there; it's MySQL that's particularly out of date.

Change History (9)

comment:1 by Carl Meyer, 14 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

Filed at the request of Malcolm and Russell at the sprints; marking Accepted accordingly.

comment:2 by Carl Meyer, 14 years ago

milestone: 1.3
Version: 1.2SVN

comment:3 by Ramiro Morales, 14 years ago

See also #14618.

comment:4 by Adam Nelson, 14 years ago

I've looked through the django-users group and the RHEL 4 docs and I think you'll be hard pressed to find even one user who will be trying to upgrade to Django 1.3 with anything less than MySQL 4.1. I couldn't find any references to v4.0 or v3.23 in the last 3 years on the group.

In addition, I don't know of anybody who uses or tests on MySQL 4.0 or lower. I think we should just leave out 3.23 and 4.0 from the notes and if those versions continue to work, great.

Here are the release notes for version 5.1 and version 5.5 which should be distilled into two new sections under MySQL.

comment:5 by Julien Phalip, 13 years ago

Severity: Normal
Type: Cleanup/optimization

comment:6 by Jacob, 13 years ago

milestone: 1.3

Milestone 1.3 deleted

comment:11 by Aymeric Augustin, 13 years ago

UI/UX: unset

Change UI/UX from NULL to False.

comment:12 by Aymeric Augustin, 13 years ago

Easy pickings: unset

Change Easy pickings from NULL to False.

comment:13 by Ramiro Morales, 13 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fixed in [17921].

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