amavisd-new & broken mysql

[Tom Sommer]

On 2019-06-13 10:17, pali at cpan.org wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> For more then 2 years people complain about semi-broken support when
> amavisd-new use MySQL database as a storage via DBD::mysql driver.
> 
> See e.g. this ticket:
> https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/issues/78
> 
> In past I tried to fix this problem in DBD::mysql, but due to
> compatibility with legacy DBD::mysql applications, fix had to be
> reverted.
> 
> Meanwhile I started working on a new DBI driver for MariaDB and MySQL
> databases DBD::MariaDB as fork of DBD::mysql and I tried to fix all
> known bug in new driver:
> 
> https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::MariaDB
> 
> Would you mind to test if amavisd-new work with DBD::MariaDB? As
> after two years people still reports that amavisd-new has problems with
> DBD::mysql, it would be probably a good idea to look if DBD::MariaDB
> driver is not more suitable for end users.

https://gitlab.com/amavis/amavis/merge_requests/22

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Tom