On Jan 14, 2005, at 9:07 PM, NSK wrote:
Does MediaWiki 1.3.9 and 1.4beta4 work with MySQL
4.1.8?
From the RELEASE-NOTES of 1.4beta4:
''''' Thinking of using MySQL 4.1? Please read this first!
'''''
''''' Your PHP installation probably uses the OLD protocol
'''''
'''''
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html
'''''
Unless you know what you are doing and have properly configured PHP and
MySQL 4.1 to work together, I recommend you do not try to use the
not-quite-compatible MySQL 4.1, but stick with MySQL 4.0.
If you have configured PHP and MySQL 4.1 to work correctly together,
then there are still pitfalls due to MySQL 4.1's character set system:
* The default character set for the server should be latin-1, not
UTF-8. The UTF-8 mode will cause data corruption and will probably
simply fail when trying to create the tables.
* When backing up data with mysqldump, be sure to set the character set
again to latin-1, or UTF-8 and compressed data will be IRRETRIEVABLE
CORRUPTED by a silently performed data conversion.
* There are probably other silent data corruption problems not yet
discovered where MySQL thinks it knows more about your data than it
really does and conveniently "converts" it for you.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)