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diff --git a/metadata/news/2013-06-01-mysql-pbxt-dropped/2013-06-01-mysql-pbxt-dropped.en.txt b/metadata/news/2013-06-01-mysql-pbxt-dropped/2013-06-01-mysql-pbxt-dropped.en.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1f7293adc47d..000000000000 --- a/metadata/news/2013-06-01-mysql-pbxt-dropped/2013-06-01-mysql-pbxt-dropped.en.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -Title: PBXT now unsupported in MySQL/MariaDB -Author: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> -Content-Type: text/plain -Posted: 2013-06-01 -Revision: 4 -News-Item-Format: 1.0 -Display-If-Installed: dev-db/mysql -Display-If-Installed: dev-db/mysql-cluster -Display-If-Installed: dev-db/mariadb -Display-If-Installed: dev-db/mariadb-galera -Display-If-Installed: dev-db/percona-server -Display-If-Installed: dev-db/google-mysql - -The PBXT/PrimeBase engine is unsupported upstream in MySQL & MariaDB for some -time now [1]. It is no longer built in the upstream MariaDB 5.5 binaries[2][3] -and if it is enabled in a source build, it fails many tests [4]. - -In light of this, the MySQL team has decided to mask it in -profiles/base/package.use.mask for all relevant packages. ->=dev-db/mysql-5.5 pbxt ->=dev-db/mariadb-5.5 pbxt ->=dev-db/mysql-cluster-5.5 pbxt # overlay ->=dev-db/mariadb-galera-5.5 pbxt # overlay ->=dev-db/percona-server-5.5 pbxt # overlay ->=dev-db/google-mysql-5.5 pbxt # overlay - -All users who have data stored in PBXT-backed tables MUST convert the tables -to another format BEFORE upgrading to MySQL/MariaDB 5.5, as the tables will -become inaccessible otherwise. - -We will continue to allow it to be built in the 5.0/5.1 series, to make the -above data migration easy, but we strongly encourage all users to move their -data out of the PBXT engine. - -If you need to check for PBXT tables easily, look in your MySQL/MariaDB -datadir for any files with a .xt extension. - -1. https://lists.launchpad.net/pbxt-discuss/msg00134.html -2. http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2012/05/25/mariadb-5-5-has-deprecated-pbxt -3. https://kb.askmonty.org/en/about-pbxt/ -4. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471616#c1 |