[CentOS] MySQL 5.5, PHP and other tools still use 5.0 client drivers

[Leon Fauster]

Am 30.10.2013 um 17:31 schrieb Matthew B. Brookover <mbrookov at mines.edu>:
> 
> On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 11:22 +0100, Leon Fauster wrote:
>> Am 29.10.2013 um 22:56 schrieb Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>:
>>> 
>>> 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.



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