Do you use MySQL?

[DAve]

DAve wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> - If you're not running MySQL 5.0, why not?
>>
> Also we have many older pieces of hardware that cannot run a newer 
> version because the older hardware cannot support the newer OS, which in 
> turn is required to run the newest MySQL. The new MySQL, if not 
> compatible with the old MySQL, does me no good.
> 
> Example, we have many old Sparc boxes, still going strong, running 
> Solaris 2.5 and MySQL 3.23. If I use MySQL 5.0 I can no longer use 
> replication. So an upgrade to MySQL 5.0 means new hardware. It's a hard 
> sell upstairs unless the new combination offers substantial improvement. 
> (Yes the Sparcs are old, but they run, and they run, and they run. 
> Sometimes we forget to check on them they are so reliable, I wish my new 
> hardware was as good).

I should rephrase that, it sounds like I am complaining which I am not. 
  We use a lot of replication to push management changes from tech 
support down to Radius, DNS, FTP servers running MySQL. If we install 
MySQL 5.0 on my new servers, we cannot use replication to my MySQL 3.23 
servers, many of which are the old Sparcs.

Of course any replacement for the old servers will use a newer version 
of MySQL, and eventually we will get all our servers running version 
4.X. But by then you will be asking if anyone is running MySQL 7, and if 
not, why not.

Also, keep in mind, if MySQL runs for months on end as a Radius backend, 
or DNS, or FTP. If we never have to do anything because a script 
optimizes the tables once a week and the logs rotate out based on size, 
and it never ever ever ever lets us down. Why would we want to upgrade?

My pager has never beeped because of MySQL.

DAve

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