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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [pgsql-advocacy] interesting PHP/MySQL thread
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Msg-id 15339.1056334760@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [pgsql-advocacy] interesting PHP/MySQL thread  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [pgsql-advocacy] interesting PHP/MySQL thread  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
Re: [pgsql-advocacy] interesting PHP/MySQL thread  (Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>)
Re: [pgsql-advocacy] interesting PHP/MySQL thread  (Erik Price <eprice@ptc.com>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Interesting thread (php-dev subj: removing bundled libmysql):
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=105621066832429&w=2

Hoo boy.  Did you catch the part about

>> and the MySQL 3.2.23
>> library can't connect to MySQL 4.1 servers, rendering it broken.

Backwards compatibility must not be a consideration over there...

> We need to use this opportunity to encourage PHP folks to switch to
> PostgreSQL.

Indeed.  What can we do exactly?

            regards, tom lane

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