On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:29:03AM -0500, Anthony W. Marino wrote:
> On Friday 22 February 2002 02:15 am, Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:07:39PM -0500, Anthony W. Marino wrote:
> > > Is there a timeline/status for 4.x functionality available?
> >
> > No.  It'll be ready when it's ready. :-)
> >
> > There are folks using 4.0.x in production and/or testing now.  This
> > helps test the code and get folks comfortable enough with it to go
> > from alpha to beta to gamma to stable.
>
> Well, any idea on a date for beta?

If I was *forced to guess*, I'd expect it in April or May.  But I
might be pleasantly surprised (and proven wrong).

> > > I would like to use MySQL 4.x, however, I'm looking for some of
> > > the highly requested functionality (ie; subselects, SP's,
> > > triggers and Views) and would like to know where/when in the
> > > sequence of things todo does everything fall into place.  This
> > > will help me plan my development effort as well since I don't
> > > need everything at once.
> >
> > I've heard that there's now a developer working on sub-selects.
> > But I've not heard the same triggers and stored procedures.  That
> > doesn't mean a whole lot, since I have no claim to know what's
> > going on at MySQL central...
> 
> Any advantages, featurewise, to using MySQL 3.x at this point?

Stability.  The 4.0 codebase is still undergoing changes that cause
some things (like replication) to break in interesting ways.

Jeremy
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