On 01/23/2013 02:55 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 02:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
Bill Nottingham <nott...@redhat.com> writes:
Tom Lane (t...@redhat.com) said:
(If the compatibility testing goes *really* smoothly, maybe we could
just drop the requirement for original mysql to still be available,
in which case it reduces to the standard package-replacement problem.
But I'm not prepared to bet on that quite yet.)
Honestly, I'd be curious as to whether we could get all the compatibility
testing done early enough, and packages changed, such that we could consider
dropping MySQL. It's just... cleaner.
Quite honestly, I'd prefer that too. But we need to have a good case
that it's not going to break very many things for very many people.
Database people hate it when you break their database. So ... as
mentioned in the feature page, we really need help testing this during
the F19 devel cycle. We'll need to make decisions before we reach
alpha/beta stage.
Yeah, 'all the compatibility testing' is something of a vague idea to
pin down :) We can certainly run a couple of test days and ask as many
people as possible to try Maria on their setups and make sure nothing's
amiss, but it's the kind of thing where it's pretty hard to know you've
covered everything. I'm no SQL expert and I'm not sure who is; is there
anyone who's well-experienced in this area who would be willing to lead
testing efforts? Is there any kind of well-known, respected test suite
for MySQL?
Once upon a time I was an SQL expert (circa 1985-89), and I have little
interest in expending the effort to once again be an expert in SQL (been
there, done that, got the scars). I DO know a number of SQL experts,
but they tend to be well paid by big companies that have big SQL
requirements.
The whole thought of developing a test suite scares the bejebers out of
me; again I have friends that have monster data sets to test new
commercial software against before they let their corporate developers
touch the latest and greatest. And then to do it so that it will test
for potential security issues. Very scary. But in the same light, one
can say considering how important data is, perhaps a long range view on
this is needed. But how to keep such an effort into becoming mysql 2.0?
(the effort becoming commercial and then owned by an upstream developer).
This whole thread is scary. <shutter>
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