[php-maint] Bug#576412: Bug#576412: Bug#576412: Bug#576412: Bug#576412: php5: Please add MySQL native driver "mysqlnd" support for PHP 5.3.x

[Ondřej Surý]

Alexander,

it's not about what solution is better, but about missing features
used in the wild.

MySQL extension is probably most used extension at all, and we must be
able to support it for whole next stable release.

And it does look like it still have some brown paper bag bugs:
http://bugs.php.net/51242

So the time for inclusion will be when it grows up from childhood
diseases and there is enough time to test it in testing/unstable (like
a full release cycle).

Ondrej

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 18:18, Alexander Schories <alexander at schories.com> wrote:
> Hi Raphael,
>
> a better solution for webclusters is a separate network (e.g. vpn), esp.
> because SSL still consumes performance (even with modern cpu instructions)
> when used at large scale web systems with lots of mysql query traffic.
>
> ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Alexander
>
>
> Am 05.04.2010 um 17:50 schrieb Raphael Geissert <geissert at debian.org>:
>
>> On 5 April 2010 05:54, Alexander Schories <alexander at schories.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> i understand that compression and SSL for MySQL are yet missing.
>>> However, they might not be used widely on most debian installations -
>>> but they are still very important features, i agree.
>>
>> SSL _is_ widely used in certain setups I work on. The alternative is
>> to setup an ssh tunnel but it implies more work when upgrading, and
>> can not always be used depending on the use case (as it requires
>> access to both the client and the server).
>>
>>> I also haven't expected to see this feature in the upcoming debian
>>> release, but in the experimental/unstable trees.
>>
>> Changes that end in the testing and later stable distributions go
>> through unstable. Since there is no real benefit so far, there's no
>> reason to spend time preparing, uploading and maintaining packages
>> using mysqlnd.
>>
>> Complementing the list of obvious differences already mentioned by
>> Ondrej, there have been reports about certain behaviour changes (like
>> defaulting to something different than what libmysqlclient defaults
>> to, etc). They are being fixed, yes, but that doesn't mean it is
>> ready.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
>> www.debian.org - get.debian.net
>
>
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