MySQL 5.1 Released

Quietly, so quietly that Gentoo still doesn't include it, MySQL 5.1 has been released.

In some ways, I think MySQL just don't care anymore. 5.1 took forever to come around and is far from perfect. I really need partitioning which is why I've been watching it. I was intrigued to read this post from Monty (effectively the 'M' of MySQL) explaining what went wrong and what is wrong with 5.1:

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/11/oops-we-did-it-again-mysql-51-rel...

I still like MySQL; it's still my preferred database. There's nothing like getting an intercontinental master/master replication running. But I have had Oracle running here for a long time (1.5GB of bloody RAM, for one table, to record a 20 byte row every few minutes - argh!) and I feel it really is time I learned how to use Postgres. I've started to remove my dependancy on phpMyAdmin (my new job is in Python and PHP simply doesn't get installed on any servers, at all) which means I'm far more comfortable using the command line tools, as I should be really. This should help me to make more use of tools like Postgres which don't have anything of the caliber of phpMyAdmin (laugh if you must, but it is productivity that matters to me and PMA is productive in the extreme).