On 6 February 2017 at 13:19, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> wrote: > Fwiw Dialect discovery is far and away the preferred solution for > "specifying" Dialect. That said, I am ok with splitting off Dialect(s) > specific to MariaDB.
Right I agree auto-detection is preferred. Are you suggesting that we actually can't automatically figure out if the connected database is a MariaDB or a MySQL instance? That would be sad. I hope you can find a solution :) > > Relatedly, I wonder if we should begin to remove the Dialects we have marked > as deprecated and whether we should consider a "legacy" repo where we can > dump these (as well as other removed features - Javassist support e.g.). > The expectation would be no continued development, but would make them more > readily available to users who still needed them as opposed to simply > dropping them completely. We could even alter the license of those classes > to be less restrictive than LGPL in terms of contributing back changes. > > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017, 6:47 AM Sanne Grinovero <sa...@hibernate.org> wrote: >> >> +1 to split them. I don't expect people to consider them "the same" >> anymore.. >> >> We probably should have split them even if there had been no technical >> differences, just to make it clear which one needs to be configured. >> >> On 6 February 2017 at 12:37, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.v...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I've had a very interesting discussion on Twitter regarding MarisDB: >> > >> > https://twitter.com/bobbytank42/status/828529312731013121 >> > >> > And, since MySQL and MariaDB have gone in different directions, we might >> > want to provide MariaDB Dialects as well. >> > >> > For instance, it's not very intuitive for a Hibernate user to figure out >> > that they need to use the MySQLInnoDb57Dialect to handle Timestamps with >> > microsecond precision which have been available since MariaDB 5.3: >> > >> > https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/microseconds-in-mariadb/ >> > >> > Let me know what you think. >> > >> > Vlad >> > _______________________________________________ >> > hibernate-dev mailing list >> > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev