[Phpmyadmin-devel] MySQL 4.1 and column comments

[Marc Delisle]

Marc Delisle a écrit :
> Garvin Hicking a écrit:
> 
>> Hi Marc!
>>
>>
>>> Garvin,
>>> we already have PMA_getComments($db, $table). Did you find someplace 
>>> not using
>>> this call to fetch comments?
>>
>>
>>
>> I haven't looked at the codebase specifically, so I just wanted to 
>> make sure
>> it's abstracted at the "root" level :)
>>
>>
>>> By "switch" I meant this: suppose someone already has comments in 
>>> pmadb. Does
>>> he have to reenter them in the MySQL structure?
>>
>>
>>
>> Oh, that's a very important thing, I nearly forgot. Maybe it would be 
>> the best
>> way to make getComments() fetch both PMA-data and MySQL 4.1 data. I 
>> don't know
>> aobut the performance impact though, but that way we could use data 
>> from both
>> worlds". We could even emit a warning if MySQL 4.1 is found AND there 
>> is comment
>> data fetched from the PMADB: "Please use migrate your PMAdb data to 
>> the new
>> MySQL 4.1 structure using [link]this command[/link]. Any future stored 
>> comments
>> are saved in MySQL 4.1 format only".
>>
>> Or something like that...? Maybe even automatically migrate any PMAdb 
>> data into
>> MySQL 4.1 on first call...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Garvin.
>>
> 
> OK I am working on this whole feature.
> 
> Marc

Just wanted to mention that I am still working on this, as time permits...

Marc