Re: MySQL and DB2 storage engine for IBM i

["Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc." <mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like it is time for the open source community to shift over to PostgreSQL.  

http://www.postgresql.org/

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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From: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen 
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Date: 12/18/2010 11:23AM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] MySQL and DB2 storage engine for IBM i

Den 17/12/10 21.27, Charles Wilt skrev:
> The way I read it, support is dropped period, Blake's original post
> had the following text:
> "Note
> The IBMDB2I storage engine was introduced in MySQL 5.1.33 and
> considered GA in MySQL 5.1.35. It was removed in MySQL 5.1.54."
>
> found here:
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/se-db2.html
>
> In addition, there's no reference to the IBMDB2I storage engine in the
> MySQL 5.5 docs:
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/storage-engines.html
>
> That's very disappointing....I had hope to make use of it at some point.
Note the (C) Oracle on that page.

5.1.54 was released Dec 16th (http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?3,399392) 
and 5.1.53 back in November (http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?3,395491).

My personal theory is that Oracle is trimming MySQL to be an entry point 
database with a clear upgrade path to Oracle.   Underlying DB2/400 
tables do not fit in that scheme.