On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:40:02PM -0700, Ron Gilbert wrote: > I am going to upgrade my MySQL server from 3.23 to 4.1, but I have a C > program that needs to continue to connect to the new server, and it > can't be recompiled. Is the old API 100% backwards compatible with a > 4.1 server? I assume the performance is the same?
You're confusing the API and the protocol. A 4.1 server can speak to a 3.23 client just fine if configured properly. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Password_hashing.html Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ [book] High Performance MySQL -- http://highperformancemysql.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
