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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by PaulHoule on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:08PM (#16924950)
My experience has been that MariaDB is NOT a drop-in replacement for MySQL.
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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by astrodust on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:58PM (#16925435)
It was when they'd just forked, but over the years they have diverged.

You could argue this was inevitable, but it was a product of the conditions at the time.

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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:33PM (#16925806)
But that time is not when Debian decided to install their software on my machine. They chose to patch over MySQL 5.5 with MariaDB 10.1 in 2017, and I'm going to judge them on that decision.
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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by sangnoir on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @10:03PM (#16928233)
> But that time is not when Debian decided to install their software on my machine

No, you installed their software on your machine without reading the release notes.

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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:22PM (#16925103)
Indeed. My issue with not being able to trust them to install what I tell them to install aside: If MariaDB had actually "just worked", I probably wouldn't have even noticed.
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