[fpc-pascal] FreePascal and MySQL 8.0

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Mon Sep 20 09:39:41 CEST 2021


On 20/09/2021 00:12, Ralf Quint via fpc-pascal wrote:
> On 9/18/2021 7:33 AM, Terry A. Haimann via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> I just upgraded to a new laptop and see that MariaDB is using MySQL 8.0
>> . I also see there is no connector in my Free Pascal install for MySQL
>> 8.0.  I do see that there is an open ticket to create a connector.  Is
>> there an Alpha or Beta version of the connector available that I can
>> try?
>>
>> Thank you for your attention,
> 
> To me, this question doesn't make any sense...
> 
> Either you have MariaDB or you have MySQL. "MariaDB is using MySQL 8.0" 
> seems utter nonsense.
> 
What he probably meant is "MariaDB is using the MySQL 8.0 connector" 
which DOES make sense.

There's the same issue with LibreOffice which did (maybe still does) use 
the MySQL connector to talk to MariaDB.

Cheers,
Wol


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