[Info-vax] MariaDB/MySQL on x86

[Neil Rieck]

On Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 6:38:25 AM UTC-4, issinoho wrote:
> Has there been any talk on this being ported?

As others have already mentioned, both MySQL-5.5 and MariaDB-5.5 are no longer supported.

And when they were, I was experiencing database corruptions problems at shutdown that forced me to move to MariaDB-10 on Linux
(our shop has been employing heterogeneous computing since 2016; our primary businesses systems run OpenVMS but our relational databases were being served up on CentOS-7; now Rocky-8)

One of the annoyances with MariaDB-10 (and MySQL-6) is that they can only be built with C11 which is still not available on OpenVMS/Alpha or OpenVMS/Itanium
(that blame goes to all the companies before VSI who did not take C/C++ seriously enough to keep the C/C++ ecosystem up to date on OpenVMS).
(not sure why the authors of MySQL and MariaDB did not follow the example set by Apache where HTTPd would always be tied to a simpler version of C)

Everyone reading this knows how difficult it is to play catchup whenever a company has allowed something to slide for more than a decade (IIRC, C99 was the last standard supported by Compaq and I do not recall any progress being made when HP was at the helm).

Kudos to VSI for making as much progress as they have.  I only hope that they get around to also supporting C17 (stable) and C23 (pre-release)

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net
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