[H-GEN] Mysql & bitwise xor

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-11-17, Arjen Lentz wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:52, Greg Black wrote:
> > > What specific file are you referring to, in which distribution/version?
> > 
> > I installed the following two packages from the ports collection
> > for FreeBSD-4.8:
> > 
> >     mysql-client-3.23.55 Multithreaded SQL database (client)
> >     mysql-server-3.23.55 Multithreaded SQL database (server)
> > 
> > They come with documentation, which is installed by the port
> > into /usr/local/share/doc/mysql/manual.html which is where I
> > quoted from.  In that version of the manual, which accompanies
> > that MySQL release, the XOR and ^ things are documented, but
> > without any indication that they are not provided by the MySQL
> > release that the documentation refers to.
> > 
> > I hope that's clear.  If not, let me know and I'll try to give
> > you any extra information that you might need.
> 
> Ok. I think that the FreeBSD ports use the original MySQL source tarball
> for that version. So I checked the 3.23.55 source tarball in the
> archives, and it indeed has this prob. Please note that 3.23.55 is from
> January 2003, nearly a year old.

Old, but "current" when I installed my FreeBSD-4.8 systems.

> 3.23.58 (the current 3.23) does have it properly documented.
> And of course 4.x (which was declared stable a year ago already) too.

Looking at the packages collection for FreeBSD-4.9 (which I will
be installing soon), I seem to have a choice of three MySQL
versions: 3.23.58, 4.0.15 and 4.1.0.  Which would you recommend
for somebody who is on the verge of making the move to MySQL
(after years of exclusive use of PostgreSQL)?

> In conclusion, it appears to have been a problem in just that one
> version, the build just happened to grab the snapshot of the manual at
> the wrong time:

OK, that makes sense -- pity it got packaged up by the FreeBSD
people in that state, but that's probably just Murphy at work.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

Cheers, Greg

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