CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

*

News:

Have a question about CiviCRM?
Get it answered quickly at the new
CiviCRM Stack Exchange Q+A site
This forum was archived on 25 November 2017. Learn more.
How to get involved.
What to do if you think you've found a bug.



  • CiviCRM Community Forums (archive) »
  • Old sections (read-only, deprecated) »
  • Support »
  • Installing CiviCRM »
  • Drupal Installations (Moderator: Piotr Szotkowski) »
  • I have MySQL 5.0 - do I really need to upgrade to 5.1?
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: I have MySQL 5.0 - do I really need to upgrade to 5.1?  (Read 838 times)

Smaug

  • I’m new here
  • *
  • Posts: 1
  • Karma: 0
  • -
  • CiviCRM version: 4.0
  • CMS version: Drupal
  • MySQL version: 5.0 / 5.1
  • PHP version: 5.2.4
I have MySQL 5.0 - do I really need to upgrade to 5.1?
September 04, 2011, 10:06:31 pm
Hi all,

I am pumped to begin using CiviCRM.

Anyway, on this page: http:// wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/Drupal+Installation+Guide+for+CiviCRM+4.0
it says that you need MySQL 5.1.x, and then later is says that it has been tested with MySQL 5.x.  Which is it?

bgm on IRC suggests that 5.0 works but 5.1 is better.  Is this true?
If so, what would I lose or gain by choosing 5.0?

I have other stuff running on MySQL and I do not want to upgrade and risk errors with them if it is not required, but I will if I need to.

Thanks.

Smaug

xavier

  • Forum Godess / God
  • I’m (like) Lobo ;)
  • *****
  • Posts: 4453
  • Karma: 161
    • Tech To The People
  • CiviCRM version: yes probably
  • CMS version: drupal
Re: I have MySQL 5.0 - do I really need to upgrade to 5.1?
September 04, 2011, 11:56:10 pm
Hi,

Things like the triggers for multi-lingual are way harder to set up using mysql 5.0 (permission issues).

Most of the features _should_ work on 5.0. This being said, as almost everyone uses 5.1, you will be on your own if there is a problem... and 5.1 is 3 years old, I'd suggest to upgrade indeed.

X+
-Hackathon and data journalism about the European parliament 24-26 jan. Watch out the result
Pages: [1]
  • CiviCRM Community Forums (archive) »
  • Old sections (read-only, deprecated) »
  • Support »
  • Installing CiviCRM »
  • Drupal Installations (Moderator: Piotr Szotkowski) »
  • I have MySQL 5.0 - do I really need to upgrade to 5.1?

This forum was archived on 2017-11-26.