[Gambas-devel] MySQL component (4.1 changes)

[Benoit Minisini]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:07, nigel at ...2... wrote:
> Benoit,
>
> Attached is a patch file for the mysql component; it adds the new system
> tables added by MySQL 4.1.  No rocket science here :-)
>
> Here is a warning :
> Due to a bug in the 4.1.8 and 4.1.9 MySQL releases where the API
> mysql_character_set_name() gives back the collation sequence rather than
> the character set, the database-manager will crash where character
> conversion is attempted during the update of a field.  The change at the
> the mysql end is simple in that the mysql file libmysql.c needs to be
> altered before being compiled, so that csname is returned instead of name. 
> Hopefully, the guys that release MySQL will soon have this resolved (it was
> reported in 4.1.8 so should have been ok in 4.1.9 but my check shows that
> it is not).
>
> regards
>
> Nigel

Isn't it possible to do the test only if mysql version is >= 4.1 ?

It recalls me a talk about having many database drivers for each version, and 
loading only the good one at database connection.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini
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