[TYPO3-dev] Mysql 4.0

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Michael Stucki wrote:
>>>> So, does that mean that TYPO3 require Mysql 4.1 all along and we
>>>> simply didn't know?
> 
> No.

May be we should revise this requirement? 4.0 is too old for now, current OSes ship with 5.0 or 5.1 already. 4.1 should be the minimum. We can say something like "while TYPO3 may run on 4.0, we storngly recommend using MySQL 4.1 or newer".

> No. multiplyDBfieldSize is a - sorry - terrible feature and I'm all for
> dropping it as soon as possible. Use proper table charsets instead of
> writing UTF-8 into a latin1 table...

This is not possible if there is a site with over 6000 pages and 4-5 content elements, some of which use flexform data with non-ascii characters. Conversion to utf-8 will break them all. So multiplyDbfieldSize is the only option for these sites.

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