Changes between Version 37 and Version 38 of MySqlDb

Timestamp:

May 11, 2009, 9:11:31 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Christian Boos

Comment:

tone down the scary warning and remove the MariaDB advertisement

MySqlDb

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-= MySQL/MariaDB and its MySQLdb Python bindings =
+= MySQL and its MySQLdb Python bindings =
 
- ''The primary supported backends are PostgreSQL and SQLite. MySQL/MariaDB is supported by Trac with limitations (see [#KnownIssues]). Use this only if you don't have other choice, and be warned that there can be issues unicode support and the repository cache. Some users are nevertheless using MySQL/MariaDB successfully, so it ''might'' work for you. ''
+Trac supports the MySQL database backend, provided you comply with the basic requirements exposed below.
+There are also a couple of [#KnownIssues] and supporting this database has proven
+to be painful at times. 
+We recommend that you use it only if you don't have other choice.
+Some users are nevertheless using MySQL successfully, and this backend is fully
+integrated in our test suite, so it ''might'' work for you.''
 
 == Requirements ==
-=== MySQL/MariaDB ===
+=== MySQL ===
 
  '' '''Warning:''' 
- The following applies to Trac starting with [milestone:0.11.1]. [[br]]
- For earlier versions of Trac, please see MySqlDb@22#MySQL.
+ The following guidelines applies to Trac starting with [milestone:0.11.1]. [[br]]
+ For earlier versions of Trac, please see MySqlDb@22#MySQL. ''
 
 To avoid unicode and international characters problems in Trac (e.g., international characters turning into question marks with mysterious "Incorrect string value" errors logged), we '''''strongly''''' advise MySQL users to use only databases with the ''`utf8`'' character set and the ''`utf8_bin`'' collation type. All tables should be created as  '''InnoDB''' or '''NDB''' type tables, because Trac uses transaction mechanism that not supported by MyISAM tables (see [comment:ticket:8067:5] and [http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/storage-engine/part_3.html MySQL docs]).
@@ -49 +54 @@
 mysql://tracuser:password@localhost/trac
 }}}
+
+Note that it seems that some users were using the [http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB MariaDB] variant of MySQL with some success(?).
 
 === MySQLdb ===