[hibernate-dev] MariaDB-specific Dialects

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 6 February 2017 at 13:19, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Fwiw Dialect discovery is far and away the preferred solution for
> "specifying" Dialect.  That said, I am ok with splitting off Dialect(s)
> specific to MariaDB.

Right I agree auto-detection is preferred. Are you suggesting that we
actually can't automatically figure out if the connected database is a
MariaDB or a MySQL instance?

That would be sad. I hope you can find a solution :)

>
> Relatedly, I wonder if we should begin to remove the Dialects we have marked
> as deprecated and whether we should consider a  "legacy" repo where we can
> dump these (as well as other removed features - Javassist support e.g.).
> The expectation would be no continued development, but would make them  more
> readily available to users who still needed them as opposed to simply
> dropping them completely.  We could even alter the license of those classes
> to be less restrictive than LGPL in terms of contributing back changes.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017, 6:47 AM Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>
>> +1 to split them. I don't expect people to consider them "the same"
>> anymore..
>>
>> We probably should have split them even if there had been no technical
>> differences, just to make it clear which one needs to be configured.
>>
>> On 6 February 2017 at 12:37, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I've had a very interesting discussion on Twitter regarding MarisDB:
>> >
>> > https://twitter.com/bobbytank42/status/828529312731013121
>> >
>> > And, since MySQL and MariaDB have gone in different directions, we might
>> > want to provide MariaDB Dialects as well.
>> >
>> > For instance, it's not very intuitive for a Hibernate user to figure out
>> > that they need to use the MySQLInnoDb57Dialect to handle Timestamps with
>> > microsecond precision which have been available since MariaDB 5.3:
>> >
>> > https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/microseconds-in-mariadb/
>> >
>> > Let me know what you think.
>> >
>> > Vlad
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