Seriously... If it needs more debugging, then by golly, release it as a BETA, do some testing, bug fixing and then release it as "gold" when it's ready? Hey, if Beta is good for Google...
As far as the warning to test before deployment goes... I've seen PLENTY of ID-10-Ts out there deploy "BETA" quality software anyway, without a backup, without any sort of easy recourse should the manure hit the fan, on their production systems and get bit hard on their backsides.
Sun warns of bugs as it releases MySQL 5.1
Summary
MySQL's founder has released version 5.1 of the open-source database software, but simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that still need to be fixed.
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Sun has released version 5.1 of the open-source MySQL database software, but the software's founder simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that are still to be fixed.
Michael 'Monty' Widenius, the founder of MySQL, stated in a blog post on Saturday that most of the issues identified were serious or crashing bugs. Not all problems are related to the new features; there are a number of older, known bugs that are still present in this release.
The new features introduced have been ranked as 'beta' quality. There are a number of issues associated with the partitioning feature, such as the difficulty to restore a partitioned table if it crashes, and the chance of losing all data in the event of a server crashing during the rename table feature of a partitioned table. Widenius highlighted that the feature was inefficient, particularly if there were many partitions in a database.
Row-based replication has not been enabled by default, because of a number of problems. Users are advised to test the latest MySQL version before deploying it to production systems.
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Wolfie2K31st Dec 2008 -
Good question
I first question why the first priority wasn't on fixing the bugs
instead of adding features. I secondly question the purpose
of including features that are of beta quality - if they need
'real world testing' then they should have included one which
is 'hard as rocks stable' and one which compiles in the
bleeding edge features for those who like to live on the edge.
Then again, this is Sun - so this kind of stupidity really
doesn't surprise me.
Kaiwai1st Dec 2008 -
RE: Sun warns of bugs as it releases MySQL 5.1
pile it onto the corpse that is java, and yo ho! We've got tecnology genicide.
mydasx1st Dec 2008 -
Idiot...
Learn to spell...
Kromaethius1st Dec 2008 -
sweet
if you'd like you can sit on my lap and spell check everything i submit online. It would be a great help. Seeing as java developers are going the way of cobalt programmers, you'll need a job right?mydasx3rd Dec 2008
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