Advice on MySQL version

Rails
1

I am going to start a project from scratch with MySQL. Is it a good
idea to go ahead with MySQL 5? Is there any gotcha with that version
as of today?

– fxn

“We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can’t agree on
when it’s necessary to compromise.”
– Larry Wall in comp.lang.perl

2

Mysql 5 works fine with the new rails 1.0. Don’t hack around with older
versions of rails
unless you have some specific need to. Older versions of rails need
mysql-hackery to work
with mysql-5, but are tuned okay for mysql-4.0. Use the latest of both.

Actually, postgres is a better choice, but that’s up to you.

Warren S.

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On 12/22/05, Warren S. [email protected] wrote:

Mysql 5 works fine with the new rails 1.0. Don’t hack around with older
versions of rails
unless you have some specific need to. Older versions of rails need
mysql-hackery to work
with mysql-5, but are tuned okay for mysql-4.0. Use the latest of both.

Actually, postgres is a better choice, but that’s up to you.

Why?

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On 12/22/05, Rodrigo A. Fernández [email protected] wrote:

Why?

It has a more complete feature set, and better adherance to ACID
behaviour in terms of not silently truncating, transforming, or
ignoring input rather than generating errors. If your application is
non-trivial, you will end up moving to PostgreSQL, or coding around
the shortcomings of MySQL.

But, I’m a zealot. Try Googling PostgreSQL vs MySQL and read what you
find. Now is the best time to decide, migration is doable, but not
always easy.