[Phpmyadmin-devel] Drizzle compatibility and demo server

[Marc Delisle]

Michal Čihař a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> Dne Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:09:13 -0400
> Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> napsal(a):
> 
>> Michal Čihař a écrit :
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Dne Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:55:19 -0400
>>> Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> napsal(a):
>>>
>>>> I think that current phpMyAdmin's code is too MySQL-oriented and that
>>>> this product should remain an interface for MySQL only. Another point is
>>>> the "My" in phpMyAdmin and the signal it gives to the community.
>>> Th "MySQL only" has already one problem called MariaDB :-).
>> The difference being that in our doc we state support for MySQL and we 
>> don't mention MariaDB.
> 
> Yes, but I don't think we want to state that we do not support MariaDB.
> Simply because it works and is compatible with MySQL.

Eventually we will have to clarify our support of MariaDB, mentionning 
which version and what kind of support.

> 
>>>> I have nothing against Drizzle but I think that the phpMyAdmin team
>>>> should remain focussed on MySQL. Anybody can fork the phpMyAdmin's code
>>>> to take another direction but I certainly do not have free time to be
>>>> part of this other team.
>>> We definitely should clearly state what we want to support and what
>>> not. MySQL, MariaDB and Drizzle still share fair amount of code and
>>> they all use same binary protocol and quite similar SQL language, so
>>> they are not that different.
>>>
>>> MariaDB adds some features compared to MySQL (some of that will be part
>>> of future MySQL releases, but some not), do we want to support these?
>> Do we have volunteers to support these?
> 
> Well we do support some of that already (eg. PBXT). And some of the
> MariaDB 5.2 features will come with MySQL later as well (eg. virtual
> columns and pluggable authentication to mention some prominent
> features).

I don't view PBXT as a MariaDB feature, it's just that they package this 
engine with their product.

> 
>>> The most important changes for Drizzle would be actually do disable
>>> some functions, which are not present there (like the charset/collation
>>> thing I've pushed to git, though maybe too fast).
>> I was under the impression that Drizzle avoided the SHOW commands (which 
>> we use a lot).
> 
> Maybe some of them, but SHOW TABLES, SHOW DATABASES and SHOW FIELDS do
> exist (however not SHOW FULL FIELDS). I didn't investigate more, I was
> just inspired by LWN.net article about MySQL, MariaDB and Drizzle and
> wanted to see what would be actually working.

What about http://pecl.php.net/package/drizzle ? I guess that proper 
support should include using this wrapper to libdrizzle.


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Marc Delisle
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