On 05.08.21 21:17, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
It's 2021. mysql just autoupgrades its tables (did so for years).
...and it broke badly during the leap 15.1 -> 15.2 update, so that I was unable to repair it easily. Even the db dump created with 15.1 could not be restored with 15.2. This was not too hard to fix in the end, but without lots of help from other users I would have been left out in the cold and started everything from scratch. (I don't run mariadb because I want to or am even remotely interested in it, just because owncloud and volkszaehler need it. I am not sure if anyone runs openldap because something else needs it or just because they like to feel the pain ;-) Personally I would have preferred something just preventing the update, telling me that I need to read up on the subject first and then continuing with the update. But to be fair, even mariadb upstream was not aware of that particular update failure (a relatively old database that was upgraded over the years and one particular migration path was missed, ending up with an empty global_priv table), so nobody expected this to fail. -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman