[mythtv-users] Mythtv database requirements??

[Paul Harrison]

On 30/03/2020 01:54, Stephen Worthington wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:31:25 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
> Except if you actually want MariaDB, as I do.  When Oracle took over
> MySQL they switched it from using the readline library to editline, as
> readline prevented them from making the changes they wanted to the
> license so they could monetarise MySQL.  Which completely broke the
> way I use the command line history in the MySQL command line programs.
> Since I use the command line a lot, I switched to MariaDB which still
> uses the readline library.  The general trend in Linux distros now is
> to install MariaDB by default, as it is more open source friendly.
> Fedora and Fedora based distros did that years ago.  Ubuntu, for some
> reason, has not made that change.  Or maybe they have in versions >
> 18.04 and I have not noticed because I have not tried them yet.
>
> I would really prefer that the MythTV packages caught up with this
> also and listed MariaDB first, so that if no database is already
> installed, MariaDB got installed.


Just be aware MariaDB 10.4 has a nasty bug that affects MythTV that they 
are being slow to fix.

https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-20261 and 
https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-21629

I'd stick with MySQL unless you have a good reason to swap at least 
until that bug is fixed.


Paul H.