Hi all, See attached the draft news item for MySQL/MariaDB dropping PBXT support.
I would like to drop the blocks into the tree not later than June 3rd. I think it should affect very few users, as PBXT was a niche feature. This should clear us to get MySQL/MariaDB 5.5 into stable. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
Title: MySQL/MariaDB packages dropping support for PrimeBase (PBXT) engine Author: Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2013-06-01 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: dev-db/mysql[pbxt,-minimal] Display-If-Installed: dev-db/mysql-cluster[pbxt,-minimal] Display-If-Installed: dev-db/mariadb[pbxt,-minimal] Display-If-Installed: dev-db/mariadb-galera[pbxt,-minimal] Display-If-Installed: dev-db/percona-server[pbxt,-minimal] Display-If-Installed: dev-db/google-mysql[pbxt,-minimal] The PBXT/PrimeBase engine is unsupported upstream in MySQL & MariaDB for some time now [1]. It is no longer built in the upstream MariaDB 5.5 binaries[2][3] and if it is enabled in a source build, it fails many tests [4]. In light of this, the MySQL team has decided to mask it in profiles/base/package.use.mask for all relevant packages. >=dev-db/mysql-5.5 pbxt >=dev-db/mysql-cluster-5.5 pbxt # overlay >=dev-db/mariadb-5.5 pbxt >=dev-db/mariadb-galera-5.5 pbxt # overlay >=dev-db/percona-server-5.5 pbxt # overlay >=dev-db/google-mysql-5.5 pbxt # overlay All users who have data stored in PBXT-backed tables should convert the tables to another format before upgrading to MySQL/MariaDB 5.5, as the tables will otherwise become inaccessible. We will continue to allow it to be built in the 5.0/5.1 series, to make the above data migration easy, but we strongly encourage all users to move their data out of the PBXT engine. 1. https://lists.launchpad.net/pbxt-discuss/msg00134.html 2. http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2012/05/25/mariadb-5-5-has-deprecated-pbxt 3. https://kb.askmonty.org/en/about-pbxt/ 4. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471616#c1
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