Re: [PATCH] MySQL Escape String (another one)

HI,

if I look lifecycle page then we can really drop support for mysql <  
4.1 because 4.0 ended it's lifecycle 30 Aug 2008.

Thanks,
Alex

Am 08.08.2009 um 12:11 schrieb Thomas Göttgens:

> Hello Alexander,
>
> 2 alternatives:
>
> - judging by the gap between 1.4.1 and 1.4.3 we're at least another 6
> to 12 months away from a new release, despite the tons of good new  
> stuff
> in CVS. According to http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/lifecycle/#calendar
> 4.0 is already out of extended support and 4.1 will be by the end of
> the year. I'm +1 for requiring at least 4.1 if not 5.0 from the next
> release onward.
>
> - Another possibility would be to detect the server version from the
> client lib and switch the use of escape/real_escape from that
> information. The Kannel Admin status page does the detection of the
> server version already, so if mysql is used in production with a
> database, that information is available after the connect/bind. Of
> course if the client lib is too old to provide real_escape to begin
> with, this is purely an autoconf issue.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Thomas                            mailto:[email protected]
>
>